This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
JOHN MUIRSpring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
More John Muir Quotes
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
JOHN MUIR