| Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. |
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- John Muir |
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| How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! |
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- John Muir |
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| I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. |
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- John Muir |
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| Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries. |
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| Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. |
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- John Muir |
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| The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. |
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- John Muir |
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| When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. |
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- John Muir |
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| There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. |
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- John Muir |
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| Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. |
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- John Muir |
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