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Every atom in creation may be said to be acquainted with and married to every other, but with universal union there is a division sufficient in degree for the purposes of the most intense individuality.
John Muir
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John Muir
Age: 76 †
Born: 1838
Born: April 21
Died: 1914
Died: December 24
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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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The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?
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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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No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite.
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Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape.
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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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In nothing does man, with his grand notions of heaven and charity, show forth his innate, low-bred, wild animalism more clearly than in his treatment of his brother beasts. From the shepherd with his lambs to the red-handed hunter, it is the same no recognition of rights - only murder in one form or another.
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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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One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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The United States government has always been proud of the welcome it has extended to good men of every nation, seeking freedom and homes and bread.
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When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier one eternal grind.
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Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them telling their wanderings even by their scents alone.
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I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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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.
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God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.
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