John Muir
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Nature is a good mother' as well as a bad father... or more precisely, it is split between the two.
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Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
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Nature is a thing wherein if one tugs at a single thing, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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The Redwood tree is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner.
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The Universe is easy to access. The clearest way into it is through a forest wilderness.
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The Universe is that which we are in, but which we can also enter into it — the clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.