Take me into the mountains.
JOHN MUIRMountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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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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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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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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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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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