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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

John Muir

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John Muir
Age: 76 †
Born: 1838
Born: April 21
Died: 1914
Died: December 24
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.
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In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.
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Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties
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Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.
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See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required only a calm day and a calm mind.
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Wander a whole summer if you can. Time will not be taken from the sum of life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions.
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Tug on anything in nature and you will find it connected to everything else.
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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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What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow - inside.
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Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away.
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No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier one eternal grind.
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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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