This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
JOHN MUIROn no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
More John Muir Quotes
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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 fool.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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