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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
John Muir
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John Muir
Age: 76 †
Born: 1838
Born: April 21
Died: 1914
Died: December 24
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The United States government has always been proud of the welcome it has extended to good men of every nation, seeking freedom and homes and bread.
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The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God for they were the best he ever planted.
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All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort, each and all, are the orderly, beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart.
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Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
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But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink.
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How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes are shining? A multitude of animal people, intimately related to us, but of whose lives we know almost nothing, are as busy about their own affairs as we are about ours.
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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!
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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No words will ever describe the exquisite beauty and charm of this mountain park – Nature’s landscape garden at once tenderly beautiful and sublime. No wonder it draws nature-lovers from all over the world.
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Rivers flow not past, but through us tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide.
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The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.
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In this silent, serene wilderness the weary can gain a heart-bath in perfect peace.
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Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .
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The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness.
John Muir
One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Ink cannot tell the glow that lights me at this moment in turning to the mountains. I feel strong [enough] to leap Yosemite walls at a bound.
John Muir
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.
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