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Divine love is the sublime boss of the universe.

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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Geologist
Glaciologist
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He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]
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Tug on anything in nature and you will find it connected to everything else.
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One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.
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Look up and down and round about you.!
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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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I should study Nature's laws in all their crossings and unions I should follow magnetic streams to their source and follow the shores of our magnetic oceans. I should go among the rays of the aurora, and follow them to their beginnings, and study their dealings and communications with other powers and expressions of matter.
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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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In God's wildness lies the hope of the world.
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In this silent, serene wilderness the weary can gain a heart-bath in perfect peace.
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We all flow from one fountain.
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None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.
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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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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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In every country the mountains are fountains, not only of rivers but of men. Therefore we all are born mountaineers, the offspring of rock and sunshine.
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Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.
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No words will ever describe the exquisite beauty and charm of this mountain park – Nature’s landscape garden at once tenderly beautiful and sublime. No wonder it draws nature-lovers from all over the world.
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One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.
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