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The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

John Muir

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John Muir
Age: 76 †
Born: 1838
Born: April 21
Died: 1914
Died: December 24
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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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Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram.
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...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of beginnings abounding in first lessons of life, mountain building, eternal, invincible, unbreakable order with sermons in stone, storms, trees, flowers, and animals brimful with humanity.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get - -people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?
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Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play.
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None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature he finds it attached to the rest of the world. Variant - When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. Variant - Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe.
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I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.
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In the woods is perpetual youth.
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...therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away and if they could, they would still be destroyed-chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got of their bark hides.
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God cannot save them from fools.
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See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required only a calm day and a calm mind.
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There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences for it is through suffering that dogs as well as saints are developed and made perfect.
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The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men.
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I...am always glad to touch the living rock again and dip my hand in the high mountain air.
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