Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
JOHN MUIRMost people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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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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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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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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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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