Take me into the mountains.
JOHN MUIRGoing to the woods is going home.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
JOHN MUIR