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
JOHN MUIRTo the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
More John Muir Quotes
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
JOHN MUIR