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Man has injured every animal he has touched.
John Muir
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John Muir
Age: 76 †
Born: 1838
Born: April 21
Died: 1914
Died: December 24
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops.
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We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love.
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What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow - inside.
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Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?
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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 know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.
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The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men.
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Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram.
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The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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The power of imagination is infinite.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier one eternal grind.
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So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains.
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When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
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One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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A little pure wildness is the one great present want, both of men and sheep.
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I always enjoyed the hearty society of a snowstorm.
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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.
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