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Quotation from My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir

“This quick, inevitable interest attaching to everything seems marvelous until the hand of God becomes visible; then it seems reasonable that what interests Him may well interest us.”

John Muir

My First Summer in the Sierra, Chapter VI (Project Gutenberg #32540)

Portrait of John Muir

Explaining why nothing in the Sierra seems dead or dull to him.

Citation: "This quick, inevitable interest attaching to everything seems marvelous until the hand of God becomes visible; then it seems reasonable that what interests Him may well interest us." — John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra, Chapter VI (Project Gutenberg #32540). (id my-first-summer-in-the-sierra-q3)

Virtues: Piety

Portrait: John Muir 1912, Underwood & Underwood, Public domain.

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