To the timid traveler, fresh from the sedimentary levels of the lowlands, these highways, however picturesque and grand, seem terribly forbidding- cold, dead, gloomy gashes in the bones of the mountains, and of all Natures ways the ones to be most cautiously avoided. Yet they are full of the finest and most telling examples of Natures love; and though hard to travel, none are safer....True, there are innumerable places where the careless step will be the last step; and a rock falling from the cliffs may crush without warning like lightning from the sky; but what then? Accidents in the mountains are less common than in the lowlands, and these mountain mansions are decent, delightful, and even divine, places to die in, compared with the doleful chambers of civilization. Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain-passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, see you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action. Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand. -John Muir
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 18:23:04 +0000
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