This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
JOHN MUIRIt 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
JOHN MUIR