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When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.

John Muir

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John Muir
Age: 76 †
Born: 1838
Born: April 21
Died: 1914
Died: December 24
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Tug on anything in nature and you will find it connected to everything else.
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Going into the woods, is going home
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A little pure wildness is the one great present want, both of men and sheep.
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I have enjoyed the trees & scenery of KY exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles & miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure?
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Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
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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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In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.
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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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In this silent, serene wilderness the weary can gain a heart-bath in perfect peace.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get - -people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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In nothing does man, with his grand notions of heaven and charity, show forth his innate, low-bred, wild animalism more clearly than in his treatment of his brother beasts. From the shepherd with his lambs to the red-handed hunter, it is the same no recognition of rights - only murder in one form or another.
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In the woods is perpetual youth.
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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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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.
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Divine love is the sublime boss of the universe.
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One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made that this is still the morning of creation that mountains long conceived are now being born, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes.
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To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible.
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