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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
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Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go for the mountains are fountains – beginning places, however related to sources beyond mortal ken.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.
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Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.
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Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them telling their wanderings even by their scents alone.
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...therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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God cannot save them from fools.
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The moon is looking down into the canyon, and how marvelously the great rocks kindle to her light! Every dome, and brow, and swelling boss touched by her white rays, glows as if lighted with snow.
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No words will ever describe the exquisite beauty and charm of this mountain park – Nature’s landscape garden at once tenderly beautiful and sublime. No wonder it draws nature-lovers from all over the world.
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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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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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My meals were easily made, for they were all alike and simple, only a cupful of tea and bread.
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Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .
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The power of imagination is infinite.
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Books are but stepping stones to show you where other minds have been.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men.
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