As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
JOHN MUIRA part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
More John Muir Quotes
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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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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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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 world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
JOHN MUIR