Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
JOHN MUIR
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
More John Muir Quotes
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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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 ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Take me into the mountains.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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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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