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The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men.
John Muir
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John Muir
Age: 76 †
Born: 1838
Born: April 21
Died: 1914
Died: December 24
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.
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God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.
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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 most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness.
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The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops.
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When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.
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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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A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: You will die before you can do anything else.
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Our lives are rounded with a sleep.
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Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.
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Every atom in creation may be said to be acquainted with and married to every other, but with universal union there is a division sufficient in degree for the purposes of the most intense individuality.
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I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
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