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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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Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.
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Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.
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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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Nature had gathered her choicest treasures , to draw her lovers into close and confiding communion with her
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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.
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In God's wildness lies the hope of the world.
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In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.
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Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?
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No Sierra landscape that I have seen holds anything truly dead or dull, or any trace of what in manufactories is called rubbish or waste everything is perfectly clean and pure and full of divine lessons.
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Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?
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Look up and down and round about you.!
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