On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIRIt seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
More John Muir Quotes
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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Take me into the mountains.
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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 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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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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There 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.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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