This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
JOHN MUIRAnyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
More John Muir Quotes
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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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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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
JOHN MUIR