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When one tugs at a single thing in nature he finds it attached to the rest of the world. Variant - When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. Variant - Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe.

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
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Picks
Everything
Connected
Thing
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Hitched
Trying
Rest
Tugs
World
Universe
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Else
Attached
Nature
Finds
Anything
Pick

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I...am always glad to touch the living rock again and dip my hand in the high mountain air.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling?
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All wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over. The highest peaks burned like islands in a sea of liquid shade. Then the lower peaks and spires caught the glow, and long lances of light, streaming through many a notch and pass, fell thick on the frozen meadows.
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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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Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape.
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The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness.
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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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I always enjoyed the hearty society of a snowstorm.
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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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Come to the woods, for here is rest.
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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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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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When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
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None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.
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