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“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.”

“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”

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Author:John Muir

“While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”

“I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.”

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Author:Hamlin Garland

“Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.”

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Author:Hamlin Garland

“Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.”

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Author:Thomas Campbell

“My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.”

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”

Source: Desert Solitaire

“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.”

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Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.”

“Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”

Source: STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”

“Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”

Source: Selected poems

“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”

“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an ecosystem, and its endangerment or diminishment can be an early warning sign of systemic trouble. Walking is an indicator species for various kinds of freedom and pleasures: free time, free and alluring space, and unhindered bodies.”

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.”

“To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.”

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Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.”

Source: The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak