God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons. ✨ John Muir …

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God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons. ✨ John Muir (2013). John Muir's Last Journey: South To The Amazon And East To Africa: Unpublished Journals And Selected Correspondence, p.29, Island Press
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. ✨ John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). The Wilderness World of John Muir, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! … ▶
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while ca … ▶
What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow - inside.

God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons. ✨ John Muir (2013). John Muir's Last Journey: South To The Amazon And East To Africa: Unpublished Journals And Selected Correspondence, p.29, Island Press

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