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• Who reports the works and ways of the clouds, those wondrous creations coming into being every day like freshly upheaved mountains?

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  Clouds, Mountain, Way

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.322, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind!

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  Mind, Senses, Superiors

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.226, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.

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  Writing, Glaciers, Grind

  John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our own must be beating in every crystal and cell, and we feel like stopping to speak to the plants and animals as friendly fellow-mountaineers. Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go.

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  Heart, Animal, Cells

  John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am very blessed. The Valley is full of people, but they do not annoy me. I revolve in pathless places and in higher rocks than the world and his ribbony wife can reach.

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  Blessed, Rocks, People

  John Muir (2013). “John Muir: Spiritual Writings”, p.78, Orbis Books

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• Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness.

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  Strange, Wilderness, Made

  John Muir (1999). “To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875”

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• One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.

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  Book, Soul, One Day

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Although I was four years at the University [of Wisconsin], I did not take the regular course of studies, but instead picked out what I thought would be most useful to me, particularly chemistry, which opened a new world, mathematics and physics, a little Greek and Latin, botany and and geology. I was far from satisfied with what I had learned, and should have stayed longer.

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  Latin, Science, Years

  John Muir (2006). “Essential Muir”, Heyday

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• Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way." ... "Surely a better time must be drawing nigh when godlike human beings will become truly humane, and learn to put their animal fellow mortals in their hearts instead of on their backs or in their dinners.

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  Heart, Animal, Drawing

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• While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

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  Peace, Nature, Fall

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

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  Wind, Two, Space

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Nature, Wind, Rivers

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• Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.

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  Men, Hiking, Climbing

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays”, p.276, e-artnow

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• How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over. The highest peaks burned like islands in a sea of liquid shade. Then the lower peaks and spires caught the glow, and long lances of light, streaming through many a notch and pass, fell thick on the frozen meadows.

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  Pain, Islands, Light

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.351, Library of America

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• ...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of beginnings abounding in first lessons of life, mountain building, eternal, invincible, unbreakable order; with sermons in stone, storms, trees, flowers, and animals brimful with humanity.

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  Song, Life Lesson, Flower

  John Muir (2006). “Our National Parks”, p.78, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Men use care in purchasing a horse, and are neglectful in choosing friends.

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  Horse, Men, Use

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• All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort, each and all, are the orderly, beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart.

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  Heart, Volcanoes, Earthquakes

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.66, Great West Books

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• Living artificially in towns, we are sickly, and never come to know ourselves.

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  Towns, Knows

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.18, Great West Books

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• When I first caught sight of (Mount Shasta) over the braided folds of the Sacramento Valley I was fifty miles away and afoot, alone and weary. Yet all my blood turned to wine, and I have not been weary since.

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  Wine, Sight, Blood

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.208, The Mountaineers Books

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• Nature had gathered her choicest treasures , to draw her lovers into close and confiding communion with her

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  Treasure, Lovers, Communion

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.589, The Mountaineers Books

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• I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of Eden; but I do so no more, because I have discovered that I also live in "creation's dawn." The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

  John Muir, Richard Kauffman (1964). “Gentle wilderness: the Sierra Nevada”

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• I...am always glad to touch the living rock again and dip my hand in the high mountain air.

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  Rocks, Air, Hands

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• Never while anything is left of me shall this... camp be forgotten. It has fairly grown into me, not merely as memory pictures, but as part and parcel of mind and body alike.

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  Memories, Mind, Body

  John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

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  Spiritual, Civilization, Environment

  Letter to J.B. McChesney, September 19, 1871.

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• Perhaps the profession of doing good may be full, but every body should be kind at least to himself. Take a course of good water and air, and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. Some have strange, morbid fears as soon as they find themselves with Nature, even in the kindest and wildest of her solitudes, like very sick children afraid of their mother-as if God were dead and the devil were king.

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  Mother, Kings, Children

  John Muir (2015). “STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California”, p.45, e-artnow

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