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 MUIRNo synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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