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“When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world.”
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“Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.”
― John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings
― John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings
“Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.”
― My First Summer in the Sierra
― My First Summer in the Sierra
“Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.”
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“Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the glaciers and the harsh crags above them. This was the alpenglow, to me the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God. At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.”
― The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures
― The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures
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