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John Muir
Age: 76 †
Born: 1838
Born: April 21
Died: 1914
Died: December 24
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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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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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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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Look up and down and round about you.!
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…their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been quenched in toil and care and poor, shallow comfort.
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...Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers.
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It is a vast wilderness of rocks in a sea of light, colored and glowing like oak and maple in autumn, when the sun gold is richest
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Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.
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Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away.
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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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I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot.
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...therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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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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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Come to the woods, for here is rest.
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Going into the woods, is going home
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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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The grand show is eternal It is always sunrise somewhere
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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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These beautiful days ... do not exist as mere pictures - maps hung upon the walls of memory to brighten at times when touched by association or will ... They saturate themselves into every part of the body and live always.
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