This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
JOHN MUIRGod has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
More John Muir Quotes
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
JOHN MUIR






