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Many of Nature's finest lessons are to be found in her storms, and if careful to keep in right relations with them, we may go safely abroad with them, rejoicing in the grandeur and beauty of their works and ways.
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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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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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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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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Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.
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Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.
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