This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
JOHN MUIRLet children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
More John Muir Quotes
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
JOHN MUIR






