This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
JOHN MUIRAt 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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