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Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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London
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Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
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The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike.
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A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect a mass of one species of tree is sublime.
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If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
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I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people and the average proportion of the numbers of each is not to my advantage.
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There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.
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