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I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot.

John Muir

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John Muir
Age: 76 †
Born: 1838
Born: April 21
Died: 1914
Died: December 24
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To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: You will die before you can do anything else.
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Man has injured every animal he has touched.
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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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Going into the woods, is going home
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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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In the woods is perpetual youth.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others
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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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I always enjoyed the hearty society of a snowstorm.
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A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
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In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.
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Wander here a whole summer, if you can ... Thousands of wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted
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...therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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