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• This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere
  he dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling...
• No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glacie
  or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!...
• One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature -- inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste.
  And yet when we look into any of her operations that lie within reach of our minds, we learn that no particle of her material is wasted or worn out....
• One touch of nature...makes all the world kin. -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)
• Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness.
  All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter....
• There is not a "fragment" in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
  -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)...
• Range of Light: Looking eastward from the summit of Pacheco Pass one shining morning, a landscape was displayed that after all my wanderings still appears as the most beautiful I have ever beheld.
  At my feet lay the Great Central Valley of California, level and flowery, like a lake of pure sunshine, forty or fifty miles wide, five hundred miles long, one rich furred garden of yellow Compositae....
• The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
  -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)...
• When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.
  -- My First Summer in the Sierra , 1911, page 110....