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John Muir1838–1914

John Muir on risk

No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them.

Stickeen (1909), Terry Gifford, LLO, page 693

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More from John Muir

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
My First Summer in the Sierra, 1869, Terry Gifford, EWDB, page 248
- Nature
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John of the Mountains (1938), journal for July 1890, p. 313
- Nature
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.
The Yosemite (1912), chapter 15: Hetch Hetchy Valley
- Beauty
- Nature

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More about risk

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I…I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost1874–1963The Road Not Taken (1915), Mountain Interval (1916, 1920), The Road Not Taken, st. 4In context
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
- Leadership
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein1879–1955

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