In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
JOHN MUIRThis is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
More John Muir Quotes
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Take me into the mountains.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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