The mountains are calling and I must go.
JOHN MUIREverything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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 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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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