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No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite.
John Muir
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John Muir
Age: 76 †
Born: 1838
Born: April 21
Died: 1914
Died: December 24
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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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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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Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole of French, Latin, and English grammars to memory.
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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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Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.
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In every country the mountains are fountains, not only of rivers but of men. Therefore we all are born mountaineers, the offspring of rock and sunshine.
John Muir
Tug on anything in nature and you will find it connected to everything else.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.
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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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In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.
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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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We all flow from one fountain.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram.
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Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
John Muir
Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also connect with the irrational.
John Muir
