The mountains are calling and I must go.
JOHN MUIRWhat a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
More John Muir Quotes
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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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
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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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