This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
JOHN MUIRClimb the mountains and get their good tidings.
More John Muir Quotes
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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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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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
JOHN MUIR