Melissa

“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.”
― John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf

“This time it is real — all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!”
― John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra

“There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.”
― John Muir, The Wilderness World of John Muir

“In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.”
― John Muir