Going to the mountains is going home. β¨ John Muir (1997). Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays, p.721, Library of America
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- The mountains are calling and I must go. β¨ John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings, p.190, The Mountaineers Books
- When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. β¨ John Muir (2011). My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harc β¦ βΆ
- Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the glaciers and the har β¦ βΆ
- When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
- How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation! β¨ John Muir (2010). The Wilderness Journeys, Canongate Books
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