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When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
Approximate author period: c. 1876 AD · industrial
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- John Muir
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- Approximate author period: c. 1876 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1838 to 1914; Wikidata Q379580, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q379580 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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