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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.
John Muir
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John Muir
Age: 76 †
Born: 1838
Born: April 21
Died: 1914
Died: December 24
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Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away and if they could, they would still be destroyed-chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got of their bark hides.
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Look up and down and round about you.!
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth—bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage of so much body in contact with earth, bosom to bosom. [We] live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.
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Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.
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I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn ever before enjoyed a storm of this sort, the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and frightened, shouting, A noble earthquake! A noble earthquake feeling sure I was going to learn something.
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The United States government has always been proud of the welcome it has extended to good men of every nation, seeking freedom and homes and bread.
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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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We all flow from one fountain.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
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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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To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness.
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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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The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.
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The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God for they were the best he ever planted.
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Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape.
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Tug on anything in nature and you will find it connected to everything else.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest.
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