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
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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
JOHN MUIR