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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.

John Muir

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John Muir
Age: 76 †
Born: 1838
Born: April 21
Died: 1914
Died: December 24
Author
Autobiographer
Botanist
Conservationist
Ecologist
Engineer
Essayist
Explorer
Geologist
Glaciologist
Inventor
Mountaineer
Naturalist
J. Muir
Nature
Acceptance
Whirling
Beautiful
Endless
Flowing
Form
Creating
Chasing
Ever
Growth
Pulling
Everything
Building
Motion
Work
Rest
Destroying
Song
Allowing
Another
Keeping
Rhythmical

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