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Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

John Muir

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John Muir
Age: 76 †
Born: 1838
Born: April 21
Died: 1914
Died: December 24
Author
Autobiographer
Botanist
Conservationist
Ecologist
Engineer
Essayist
Explorer
Geologist
Glaciologist
Inventor
Mountaineer
Naturalist
J. Muir
Round
Rolls
Rounds
Seas
Sea
Sunrise
Eternal
Continents
Turn
Sunset
Turns
Islands
Gloaming
Earth
Wilderness
Sierra
Dawn
Vapor

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