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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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Geologist
Glaciologist
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J. Muir
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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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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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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Look up and down and round about you.!
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Come to the woods, for here is rest.
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God cannot save them from fools.
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The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears.
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Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.
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Books are but stepping stones to show you where other minds have been.
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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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These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.
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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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One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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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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