…their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared wi…

John Muir
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…their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been quenched in toil and care and poor, shallow comfort. ✨ John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations, p.39, Great West Books
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