“The mountains are calling, and I must go.” of my favorite quotes John Muir from 12
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“The mountains are calling, !and I must go.”!
of my favorite quotes
John Muir!from
12!
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal
and give strength
to body and soul.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Climb the mountains
and get their good
tidings.
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The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods.
But he cannot save them from fools.
Between every two pines is a doorway to a
new world.
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I used to envy the father of our race,
dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and
plants of Eden; but I do so no more,
because I have discovered
that I also live in “creation's dawn.” The morning stars still sing together,
and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day.
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