Take me into the mountains.
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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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