Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
JOHN MUIROne touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
More John Muir Quotes
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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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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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIR