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• 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!...
• The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil.
  The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops....
• Going to the mountains is going home. -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)
• Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life
  heir joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life....
• 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....
• Everything is flowing -- going somewhere, animals and so- called lifeless rocks as well as water.
  Thus the snow flows fast or slow in grand beauty-making glaciers and avalanche...
• 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....
• Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures.
  All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts....
• Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods.
  Wash your spirit clean. -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)...