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• I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn ever before enjoyed a storm of this sort, the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and frightened, shouting, "A noble earthquake! A noble earthquake" feeling sure I was going to learn something.

  John Muir

  Earthquakes, Feelings, Storm

  "John Muir and the March 26, 1872, Owens Valley Earthquake" by John Muir, projects.eri.ucsb.edu. 1872.

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• When one tugs at a single thing in nature; he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
  Variant - When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.
  Variant - Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe.

  John Muir

  Nature, Trying, World

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• How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!

  John Muir

  Selfish, Conceited, Rights

  John Muir (2010). “The Wilderness Journeys”, Canongate Books

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• Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings.

  John Muir

  Garden, Hiking, Yellowstone

  John Muir (2015). “THE YOSEMITE COLLECTION of John Muir (Illustrated): The Yosemite, Our National Parks, Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park, A Rival of the Yosemite, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Yosemite Glaciers, Yosemite in Winter & Yosemite in Spring”, p.188, e-artnow

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• No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life. Some lean back in majestic repose; others, absolutely sheer or nearly so for thousands of feet, advance beyond their companions in thoughtful attitudes, giving welcome to storms and calms alike, seemingly aware, yet heedless, of everything going on about them.

  John Muir

  Attitude, Wall, Thoughtful

  John Muir (2017). “The Yosemite: John Muir's quest to preserve the wilderness”, p.11, Vertebrate Publishing

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• Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity.

  John Muir

  Beautiful, Death, Children

  John Muir (2015). “A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies”, p.43, e-artnow

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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?

  John Muir

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

  John Muir

  Strange, Wilderness, Made

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

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

  John Muir

  Writing, Glaciers, Grind

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

  John Muir

  Blessed, Rocks, People

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

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

  John Muir

  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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• 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.

  John Muir

  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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• 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.

  John Muir

  Heart, Animal, Drawing

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• While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

  John Muir

  Peace, Nature, Fall

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.

  John Muir

  Safety, Woods, Should

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more”, p.437, e-artnow

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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.

  John Muir

  Heart, Animal, Cells

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

  John Muir

  Latin, Science, Years

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

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• I always enjoyed the hearty society of a snowstorm.

  John Muir

  Heart, Snowstorms, Hearty

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.321, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• 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 to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

  John Muir

  Song, Tree, Tragedy

  John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  John Muir

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

  John Muir

  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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• The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears.

  John Muir

  Stars, Eye, Wind

  John Muir (2010). “The Wilderness Journeys”, Canongate Books

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• Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.

  John Muir

  Environmental, Wilderness, Harm

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

  John Muir

  Horse, Men, Use

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• Books are but stepping stones to show you where other minds have been.

  John Muir

  Book, Mind, Stones

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