Going to the mountains is going home.
JOHN MUIRLet children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
More John Muir Quotes
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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