One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
JOHN MUIRWildness is a necessity.
More John Muir Quotes
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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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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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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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What 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!
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Take me into the mountains.
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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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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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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