It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
JOHN MUIRTake me into the mountains.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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 sun shines not on us but in us.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Going to the mountains is going 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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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.
JOHN MUIR