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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....
• So many things you cannot do, so little time to do them all in. -- Ambidextrous Rex
• No mountains I know of are so alluring. None so hospitable, kindly, tenderly inspiring.
  It seems strange that everybody does not come at their call....
• Going to the mountains is going home. -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)
• The mountains are calling me and I must go... -- John Mui
• As goatherd learns his trade by goat, so writer learns his trade by wrote.
  As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing....
• 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...
• One day's exposure to mountains is better than carloads of books.
  See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates....