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First Quotes by John Muir
- Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear's days are…
- No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther…
- Bread without butter or coffee without milk is an awful calamity, as if everything before being put in our mouth must first be held under…
- A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though…
- ...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…
- 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…
- All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses…
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- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
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