Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
JOHN MUIRTake me into the mountains.
More John Muir Quotes
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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 nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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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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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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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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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
JOHN MUIR