This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
JOHN MUIRTherefore all childish fear must be put away.
More John Muir Quotes
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Take me into the mountains.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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.
JOHN MUIR