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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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One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Books are but stepping stones to show you where other minds have been.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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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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How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes are shining? A multitude of animal people, intimately related to us, but of whose lives we know almost nothing, are as busy about their own affairs as we are about ours.
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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 Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.
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