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John Muir
- 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.... John Muir {view}
- The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.... John Muir {view}
- The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.... John Muir {view}
- The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thought and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains.... John Muir {view}
- Men use care in purchasing a horse, and are neglectful in choosing friends... John Muir {view}
- Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul.... John Muir {view}