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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.

John Muir
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John Muir
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)

John Muir
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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 likeworship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, theirsongs never cease. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)

John Muir
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.

John Muir, The Wilderness World of John Muir
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Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.

John Muir, The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures
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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.

John Muir, The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures
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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, The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.

John Muir, The Wilderness World of John Muir
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.

John Muir, The Mountains of California
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