Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
JOHN MUIRIn our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIR