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Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole of French, Latin, and English grammars to memory.
John Muir
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John Muir
Age: 76 †
Born: 1838
Born: April 21
Died: 1914
Died: December 24
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature he finds it attached to the rest of the world. Variant - When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. Variant - Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe.
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Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .
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How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes are shining? A multitude of animal people, intimately related to us, but of whose lives we know almost nothing, are as busy about their own affairs as we are about ours.
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None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.
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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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Listen to them! How wholly infused with God is this one big word of love that we call the world!
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The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God for they were the best he ever planted.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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The moon is looking down into the canyon, and how marvelously the great rocks kindle to her light! Every dome, and brow, and swelling boss touched by her white rays, glows as if lighted with snow.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?
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A little pure wildness is the one great present want, both of men and sheep.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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