In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
JOHN MUIRThis time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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