This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
JOHN MUIRThere 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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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Take me into the mountains.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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