I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
JOHN MUIRThousands 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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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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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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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