This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
JOHN MUIRIn our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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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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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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