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The power of imagination makes us infinite.

John Muir

The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
JOHN MUIR

Calm Fall Forest Light Morning Nature Ripen
We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
JOHN MUIR

Information Knowledge One Liner Reach
As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
JOHN MUIR

Bird Hear Nature Peace Sing Travel Waterfall Winds
In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
JOHN MUIR

God Hope One Liner Wild World
In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
JOHN MUIR

Church Mountain Nature Religion Time Turn
Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
JOHN MUIR

Listen Men Mountain Society Speak Wisdom Wise
So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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Affair Bound Flood Master Men Tide
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
JOHN MUIR

Finding Forest Lost Mind Nature Soul Travel Trekking
Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
JOHN MUIR

Black Feeling Loneliness Night Silence
In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
JOHN MUIR

Beautiful Forest Individual Nature Species Tree Variety
I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
JOHN MUIR

Light Love Moon Run Stride Strong Sun
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
JOHN MUIR

Direction Freedom Hiking Mountain Peace Quiet Walk
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
JOHN MUIR

Alone Heart Hotel Nature Silence Travel Wild
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
JOHN MUIR

Nature Travel Walk
At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
JOHN MUIR

Bless Conscious Divine Light Mountain Religion Touch Wait Worship
There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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Fragment Harmony Nature Relative

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