On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIRThere is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
More John Muir Quotes
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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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.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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