The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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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 care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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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Take me into the mountains.
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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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