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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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...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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The grand show is eternal It is always sunrise somewhere
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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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The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?
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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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In this silent, serene wilderness the weary can gain a heart-bath in perfect peace.
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Government protection should be thrown around every wild grove and forest on the mountains, as it is around every private orchard, and the trees in public parks. To say nothing of their value as fountains of timber, they are worth infinitely more than all the gardens and parks of towns.
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Man has injured every animal he has touched.
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Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions.
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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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Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally.
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One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made that this is still the morning of creation that mountains long conceived are now being born, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Hiking. I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains...the se mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them.
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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 not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men.
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Wherever we go in the mountains, we find more than we seek.
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I've had a great time in South America and South Africa. Indeed it now seems that on this pair of wild hot continents I've enjoyed the most fruitful year of my life.
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No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite.
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