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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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I wish I knew where I was going. Doomed to be carried of the spirit into the wilderness, I suppose. I wish I could be more moderate in my desires, but I cannot, and so there is no rest.
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To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible.
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There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
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God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.
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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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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Nature had gathered her choicest treasures , to draw her lovers into close and confiding communion with her
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