I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIRTake me into the mountains.
More John Muir Quotes
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
JOHN MUIR