Going to the mountains 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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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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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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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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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
JOHN MUIR