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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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Botanist
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Glaciologist
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Mountaineer
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Many of Nature's finest lessons are to be found in her storms, and if careful to keep in right relations with them, we may go safely abroad with them, rejoicing in the grandeur and beauty of their works and ways.
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The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops.
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Ink cannot tell the glow that lights me at this moment in turning to the mountains. I feel strong [enough] to leap Yosemite walls at a bound.
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The power of imagination is infinite.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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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Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions.
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Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?
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...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.
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The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men.
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Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
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We all flow from one fountain.
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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.
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