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.

Muir urges direct, embodied experience of the natural world as a moral and spiritual education, especially for children. In his view, nature continually demonstrates the interdependence of decay and renewal—death feeding life, life returning to earth—so that mortality can be understood not as a horror but as part of a larger, beautiful cycle. The sentence also reflects Muir’s characteristic blend of scientific observation and religious diction (“blessed star”), framing ecology as a kind of sacred communion. The claim that “death is stingless” suggests consolation through perspective: when one sees life as continuous transformation rather than individual possession, fear of death diminishes.