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• Most people are on the world, not in it... -- John Mui
• In all levels of life, the sheep are safe only when the wolves are not hungry. -- F. J. Lovre
• 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....
• My life has been like a glacier, one slow grind. -- John Mui
• Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play.
  Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes - all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them....
• 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....
• It's not that they die, but that they die like sheep.
• So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert.
  And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees....
• I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer. -- John Mui