John Muir on death
John Muir97 quotes“On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.”
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
John MuirJohn Muir Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
John MuirJohn Muir I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
John MuirJohn Muir When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
John MuirJohn Muir At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
John MuirJohn Muir Nothing dollarable is safe.
John MuirJohn Muir When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John MuirJohn Muir In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
John MuirJohn Muir Nothing truly wild is unclean.
John MuirJohn Muir Nothing truly wild is unclean.
John MuirJohn Muir 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.
John MuirJohn Muir The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
John MuirJohn Muir Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
John MuirJohn Muir Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
John MuirJohn Muir The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
John MuirJohn Muir I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
John MuirJohn Muir
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We were dirt poor but we had each other. We didn’t need much to have a lot.
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov One quick sip of your memory I let it slip, and I go on without you.
Emma SchippersEmma Schippers If the scars on my heart were visible to the naked eye, maybe you’d think twice about inflicting more.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney I am getting better at forgetting you. I am slowly but steadily learning the art of forgetting you.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia Paper and pen petrify me, for they pierce right through me, drawing deep blue blood, leaving me utterly cold.
Shreya JoshiShreya Joshi Spend time with people who get excited over even the smallest victories you earn.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis I wonder if you were the poison or the antidote.
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More on death
Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.
Martin LutherMartin Luther The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.
Andrew CuomoAndrew Cuomo If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
Ray BradburyRay Bradbury If you knew Jesus was coming tomorrow, what would you do today? Then do it!
Max LucadoMax Lucado Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner
H. L. MenckenH. L. Mencken When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners.
Martin LutherMartin Luther