Going to the mountains is going home.
JOHN MUIROne touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
More John Muir Quotes
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Take me into the mountains.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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