Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
JOHN MUIRIt seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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