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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.

John Muir

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John Muir
Age: 76 †
Born: 1838
Born: April 21
Died: 1914
Died: December 24
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Botanist
Conservationist
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Engineer
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Explorer
Geologist
Glaciologist
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Mountaineer
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J. Muir
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