The Mountains Are Calling And I Must Go Poem. With freedom only found in dreams we may walk together one day as skylarks sing in the fields of green and the sun takes the night away. I discovered john muir through the famous quote the mountains are calling and i must go my favorite quote of his is thousands of tired nerve shaken over civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home.
The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness when one tugs at a single thing in nature he finds it attached to the rest of the world and the mountains are calling and i must go. The mountains are calling and i must go but i can t i ve too many words to write lunches to pack ideas to answer before i get lost or really it s found among the granite and cool mountain streams where dreams begin at the source on these peaks where i see the first glitter of sunrise silent and fresh no words spoken no. I will write again when i return from kings river canyon.
So stay and enter the door of my mind.
The mountains are calling poem by joyce hemsley. The mountains are calling and i must go and i will work on while i can studying incessantly. As we mark the anniversary of muir s birth on april 21 1838 we should consider the full quote which appears in an 1873 letter from muir to his sister. To see what your friends thought of this quote please sign up.