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- Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common everyday beauty.
- John Muir (1838 - 1914), My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911
- That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
- John Buchan, Baron Tweedsmuir
- In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
- John Muir (1838 - 1914), John of the Mountains, 1938
- The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
- John Muir (1838 - 1914), My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911
- Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe.
- John Muir (1838 - 1914)
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