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Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them telling their wanderings even by their scents alone.
John Muir
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John Muir
Age: 76 †
Born: 1838
Born: April 21
Died: 1914
Died: December 24
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Wilderness is a necessity ... They will see what I meant in time. There must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls. Food and drink is not all. There is the spiritual. In some it is only a germ, of course, but the germ will grow.
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As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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In this silent, serene wilderness the weary can gain a heart-bath in perfect peace.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.
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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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Listen to them! How wholly infused with God is this one big word of love that we call the world!
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Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away.
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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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Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness.
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My meals were easily made, for they were all alike and simple, only a cupful of tea and bread.
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In the woods is perpetual youth.
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But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink.
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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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One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made that this is still the morning of creation that mountains long conceived are now being born, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes.
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Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty.
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Man has injured every animal he has touched.
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But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...as if into this one mountain mansion Nature had gathered her choicest treasures.
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Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape.
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