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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.
John Muir
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John Muir
Age: 76 †
Born: 1838
Born: April 21
Died: 1914
Died: December 24
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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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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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The water in music the oar forsakes. The air in music the wing forsakes. All things in move in music and write it. The mouse, lizard, and grasshopper sing together on the Turlock sands, sing with the morning stars.
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...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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Look up and down and round about you.!
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