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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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We are in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us....How glorious a conversion, so complete and wholesome it is, scarce memory enough of old bondage days left as a standpoint to view it from! In this newness of life we seem to have been so always
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Nature had gathered her choicest treasures , to draw her lovers into close and confiding communion with her
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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Wherever we go in the mountains, we find more than we seek.
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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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God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.
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Wherever a Scotsman goes, here goes Burns. His grand whole, catholic soul squares with the good of all therefore we find him in everything, everywhere.
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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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I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth—bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage of so much body in contact with earth, bosom to bosom. [We] live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.
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