This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
JOHN MUIRThe galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
More John Muir Quotes
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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Take me into the mountains.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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