This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
JOHN MUIREvery sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
More John Muir Quotes
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Take me into the mountains.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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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.
JOHN MUIR