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.
JOHN MUIRTherefore all childish fear must be put away.
More John Muir Quotes
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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