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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

John Muir

The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
JOHN MUIR

Civil Garden Increase Park Recognize Value World
How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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Blind Creature Narrow Selfish Sympathy
Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Blind One Liner Opposition Progress
Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
JOHN MUIR

Nature Peace Travel World
Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Listen Men Mountain Society Speak Wisdom Wise
This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Death Die Glory Mountain Reality Time
I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
JOHN MUIR

Animal Evidence Happen Trace
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.
JOHN MUIR

Affair Bound Flood Master Men Tide
The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
JOHN MUIR

Darkness Nature One Liner Travel World
All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
JOHN MUIR

Holiday Nature Wander Wild World
Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
JOHN MUIR

Hiking Land Mountain Travel
This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
JOHN MUIR

Defend Frost Love Lover Nature Rejoice Reservation Wild
There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
JOHN MUIR

Fragment Harmony Nature Relative
Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
JOHN MUIR

Gold Hide Nature One Liner Wild
The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
JOHN MUIR

Friendship Loneliness Sense Solitude
Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
JOHN MUIR

Beautiful Change Creation Destruction Nature

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

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