This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
JOHN MUIRWriting is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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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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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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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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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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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Take me into the mountains.
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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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
JOHN MUIR