This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
JOHN MUIRCome to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
More John Muir Quotes
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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 sun shines not on us but in us.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
JOHN MUIR