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John Muir is remembered primarily as a no-nonsense conservationist and the founding president of the Sierra Club, but he was also a bold adventurer, a fearless scrambler of peaks, glaciers, and waterfalls whose best-known essay includes a riveting account of nearly falling to his death, in 1872, while ascending California’s Mt. Ritter.
Jon Krakauer • Into the Wild
John Muir famously wrote, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe,”
Paul Rosolie • Mother of God: An Extraordinary Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon
“The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
—John Muir
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. - John Muir
—John Muir, Travels in Alaska, 1915
Thich Nhat Hanh • Love Letter to the Earth
John Muir (“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe”),
John McPhee • Encounters with the Archdruid: Narratives About a Conservationist and Three of His Natural Enemies
John Muir grandit et se forma avec un pied dans chacune des deux réalités qui coexistaient alors : un dans l’Écosse ordonnée et studieuse, l’autre dans la Grande Sauvagerie qui s’étendait au-delà des champs de son père. Et chez l’homme qu’il devint se produisit ce miracle qui n’a pas si souvent lieu, d’être à la fois très ouvert au monde et conscie
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