John Muir on death
John Muir97 quotes“This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!”
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
John MuirJohn Muir Nothing truly wild is unclean.
John MuirJohn Muir Nothing truly wild is unclean.
John MuirJohn Muir 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.
John MuirJohn Muir The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
John MuirJohn Muir Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
John MuirJohn Muir Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
John MuirJohn Muir On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
John MuirJohn Muir The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
John MuirJohn Muir 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 MuirJohn Muir 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 MuirJohn Muir Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
John MuirJohn Muir Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
John MuirJohn Muir One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
John MuirJohn Muir The mountains are calling and I must go.
John MuirJohn Muir 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 MuirJohn Muir
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe Get ready for the death race for love experience!
Juice WrldJuice Wrld We never lose the people we love, even to death.
Leo BuscagliaLeo Buscaglia I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was on of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive.
Harriet TubmanHarriet Tubman Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
Marcus AureliusMarcus Aurelius Even in the grave, all is not lost.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe Our life is made by the death of others.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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