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“Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are fountains – beginning places, however related to sources beyond mortal ken.”

Poet Source Higher Mountain Mortals Related Visible Fountain Enthusiastic

Book:JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays

Source: JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays

“I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Americans will just sit in awe of what we don't understand, while we watch the rest of the world boldly go where no mortal has gone before.”

“Love, the one supreme, unceasing source of human felicity, the one sole joy which lifts the whole mortal existence into the empyrean, was by it [Christianity] degraded into the mere mechanical action of reproduction.”

Humans Whole Action Joy Religion Existence Christianity Source Mere Supreme Mortals Lifts Sole Reproduction Felicity

Book:Views and Opinions

Source: Views and Opinions

“Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.”

Men Two Evil Literature Source Blessing Cups Mortals Thrones Demise

Book:The Iliad

Source: The Iliad

“The future is a process, not a destination. Richard Stallman is a guy my age. I sympathize with Richard rather more than I sympathize with Richard's open-source ideas, but the guy's a mortal human being and so is his social movement. Open-source is a means of production.”

Humans Mean Ideas Age Guy Social Process Human Beings Movement Source Productions Mortals Destination Social Movements Open Source

Author:Bruce Sterling

“"Ultimate reality" is the highest, deepest, eternal, unchangeable, source and ground of everything we see, touch, and experience with our five senses. It's that which gives being and meaning to everything finite, mortal, changeable. It's also that toward which we creatures look and live - whether we know it or not - our telos; our goal and purpose.”

Knows Giving Looks Reality Purpose Goal Five Source Creatures Eternal Highest Ultimate Senses Mortals Finite Unchangeable Five Senses Ultimate Reality

Author:Roger E. Olson

“A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.”

Life Is Causes Source Flow Breaths Mortals Demise

Author:Paracelsus