The mountains are calling and I must go.
JOHN MUIRThe 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Take me into the mountains.
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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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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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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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