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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
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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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...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of beginnings abounding in first lessons of life, mountain building, eternal, invincible, unbreakable order with sermons in stone, storms, trees, flowers, and animals brimful with humanity.
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Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally.
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The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Listen to them! How wholly infused with God is this one big word of love that we call the world!
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Rivers flow not past, but through us tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide.
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Our lives are rounded with a sleep.
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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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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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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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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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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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All wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light.
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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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One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made that this is still the morning of creation that mountains long conceived are now being born, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes.
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He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]
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...therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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