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• 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....
• Our crude civilization engenders a multitude of wants, and law-givers are ever at their wit's end devising.
  The hall and the theater and the church have been invented, and compulsory education....
• 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....
• Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them
  elling their wanderings ever by their accents alone....
• Going to the mountains is going home. -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)
• This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere
  he dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling...
• There is no conflict between liberty and safety. We will have both or neither. -- Ramsey Clark
• When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop
  iped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with all other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty....
• 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!...