Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
JOHN MUIREarth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
More John Muir Quotes
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Going to the woods is going home.
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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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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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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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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
JOHN MUIR