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...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.

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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This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere the dew is never dried all at once a shower is forever falling vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
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The tide of visitors will float slowly about the bottom of the valley as harmless scum collecting in hotel and saloon eddies, leaving the rocks and falls eloquent as ever.
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Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.
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Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty.
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…their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been quenched in toil and care and poor, shallow comfort.
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Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society.
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I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling?
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Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play.
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I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions.
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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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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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I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn ever before enjoyed a storm of this sort, the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and frightened, shouting, A noble earthquake! A noble earthquake feeling sure I was going to learn something.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.
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God cannot save them from fools.
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I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth—bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage of so much body in contact with earth, bosom to bosom. [We] live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.
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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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One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.
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