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All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts…

Quote byJohn Muir · 1838–1914

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Three Adventures in the Yosemite", The Century Magazine volume LXXXIII, number 5 (March 1912) pages 656-661 (at page 661); modified slightly and reprinted in The Yosemite (1912), chapter 4: Snow Banners.

English (original)

All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort, each and all, are the orderly, beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart.

— John Muir

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