“Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.”
― My First Summer in the Sierra
― My First Summer in the Sierra
“As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can".”
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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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“This time it is real — all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!”
― My First Summer in the Sierra
― My First Summer in the Sierra
“On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. ... Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights.”
― A Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf: The American Naturalist's 1867 Journey Through the Post-War South
― A Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf: The American Naturalist's 1867 Journey Through the Post-War South
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