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Accomplish Quote by John Muir

“By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent…” quote by John Muir — Download Open image

“By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs - now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life....”

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