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In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.

John Muir

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John Muir
Age: 76 †
Born: 1838
Born: April 21
Died: 1914
Died: December 24
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Botanist
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Engineer
Essayist
Explorer
Geologist
Glaciologist
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J. Muir
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Wherever we go in the mountains, we find more than we seek.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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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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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier one eternal grind.
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