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See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required only a calm day and a calm mind.

John Muir

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John Muir
Age: 76 †
Born: 1838
Born: April 21
Died: 1914
Died: December 24
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The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men.
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In this silent, serene wilderness the weary can gain a heart-bath in perfect peace.
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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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To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible.
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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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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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These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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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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Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.
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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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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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