Going to the woods is going home.
JOHN MUIRI ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
More John Muir Quotes
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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