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We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love.

John Muir

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John Muir
Age: 76 †
Born: 1838
Born: April 21
Died: 1914
Died: December 24
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The bat­tle we have fought, and are still fight­ing for the forests is a part of the eter­nal con­flict between right and wrong, and we can­not expect to see the end of it. …So we must count on watch­ing and striv­ing for these trees, and should always be glad to find any­thing so surely good and noble to strive for.
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Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.
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We are in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us....How glorious a conversion, so complete and wholesome it is, scarce memory enough of old bondage days left as a standpoint to view it from! In this newness of life we seem to have been so always
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Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go for the mountains are fountains – beginning places, however related to sources beyond mortal ken.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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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This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere the dew is never dried all at once a shower is forever falling vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
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No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite.
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Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.
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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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In God's wildness lies the hope of the world.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others
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I've had a great time in South America and South Africa. Indeed it now seems that on this pair of wild hot continents I've enjoyed the most fruitful year of my life.
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I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling?
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Going into the woods, is going home
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Man has injured every animal he has touched.
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