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• Most people are on the world, not in it. - have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused
  eparate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate....
• Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry... -- John Mui
• One touch of nature...makes all the world kin. -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)
• I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer. -- John Mui
• In God's wildness lies the hope of the world x the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness.
  The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware....
• It was not like taking the veil. No solemn adjuration of the world.
  I only went out for a walk and finally decided to stay till sundown....
• Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
  -- John Stuart Mill...
• When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
• Bully! Bully! -- Teddy Roosevelt with John Muir at Glacier Poi