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All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort, each and all, are the orderly, beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart.

John Muir

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John Muir
Age: 76 †
Born: 1838
Born: April 21
Died: 1914
Died: December 24
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Botanist
Conservationist
Ecologist
Engineer
Essayist
Explorer
Geologist
Glaciologist
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Mountaineer
Naturalist
J. Muir
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Volcanoes
Outbursts
Beauty
Shock
Wildness
Thundering
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Roaring
Yosemite
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Earthquakes
Boulders
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Storms
Outburst
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Heart
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Waves
Sap
Every
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Flood
Floods
Geysers

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