This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
JOHN MUIRI only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
More John Muir Quotes
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Going to the woods is going home.
JOHN MUIR






