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.
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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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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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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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