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When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

- John Muir
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Sequoia seeds have flat wings, and glint and glance in their flight like a boy's kite.

Sequoia seeds have flat wings, and glint and glance in their flight like a boy's kite.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those of wood rats, while their more enduring monuments, excepting those wrought on the forests by the fires they made to improve their hunting grounds, vanish in a few centuries.

It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should never attack men except in defense of their young. How easily and safely a bear could pick us up as we lie asleep! Only wolves and tigers seem to have learned to hunt man for food, and perhaps sharks and crocodiles.

All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit - the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine.

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When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.