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“I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot.” quote by John Muir — Download Open image

“I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot.”

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During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half…

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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…

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“Here are the roots of all the life of the valleys, and here more simply than elsewhere is the eternal flux of nature manifested.”

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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.

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Our lives are rounded with a sleep.

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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.

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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…

“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor…

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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

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In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is in the woods, and waste and pure destruction are making rapid headway. If the importance of the forests were even vaguely understood, even from an economic standpoint, their preservation would call forth the most watchful attention…

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.…

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