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  • I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of Eden; but I do so no more, because I have discovered that I also live in "creation's dawn." The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day.

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    Beauty   Nature  
    John Muir, Richard Kauffman (1964). “Gentle wilderness: the Sierra Nevada”

  • There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

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

  • The last days of this glacial winter are not yet past; we live in 'creation's dawn.' The morning stars still sing together, and the world, though made, is still being made and becoming more beautiful every day.

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    Stars  
    John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.72, Univ of Wisconsin Press

  • One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made; that this is still the morning of creation; that mountains long conceived are now being born, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes.

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    John Muir (2015). “John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California”, p.521, e-artnow

  • Who reports the works and ways of the clouds, those wondrous creations coming into being every day like freshly upheaved mountains?

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    John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.322, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  • The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?

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    Men  
    Philip Hyde, John Muir (1992). “The range of light: photographs”, Gibbs Smith

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

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

  • Every atom in creation may be said to be acquainted with and married to every other, but with universal union there is a division sufficient in degree for the purposes of the most intense individuality.

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    John Muir (1997). “John Muir: Nature Writings”, p.603, Library of America
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John Muir

  • Born: April 21, 1838
  • Died: December 24, 1914
  • Occupation: Author
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