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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

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 bat­tle we have fought, and are still fight­ing for the forests is a part of the eter­nal con­flict between right and wrong, and we can­not expect to see the end of it. …So we must count on watch­ing and striv­ing for these trees, and should always be glad to find any­thing so surely good and noble to strive for.
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In every country the mountains are fountains, not only of rivers but of men. Therefore we all are born mountaineers, the offspring of rock and sunshine.
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...therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love.
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Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions.
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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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I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer.
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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 mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ... The whole wilderness is unity and interrelation, is alive and familiar, full of humanity. The very stones seem talkative, sympathetic, brotherly.
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...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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