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John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

Book by John Muir · 3 quotes · Wilderness, Yosemite, Chinks

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“I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's fate on a noble mountain, or in the heart of a glacier, would be blessed as compared with death from disease, or from some shabby lowland accident. But the best death, quick and crystal-pure, set so glaringly open before us, is hard enough to face, even though we feel gratefully sure that we have already had happiness enough for a dozen lives.”

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”