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Nothing truly wild is unclean.

John Muir

If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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Environment Forest Hear Nature People Preservation Speak Tree Vanish Wood
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
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
Going to the woods is going home.
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Home Nature One Liner Peace
Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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DAngry Home Nature Place Travel World
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
Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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Deep Forest Forget Green Naturem Wood
The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Deep Healing Inspirational One Liner Sun Sunshine
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Direction Freedom Hiking Mountain Peace Quiet Walk
Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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Angel Guardian Guide Inspirational People Sheep Storm
Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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Ash Care Dust Grace Ignorance Inspirational Knowledge People Time Work Work Hard
Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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Blossom Change Darkness Flower Frozen Rain Rainbow Sky Snow
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.
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Holiday Nature Wander Wild World
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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Bee Book Damage Flower Nature Sweet
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.
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Alone Heart Hotel Nature Silence Travel Wild
Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Joy Nature One Liner Spring Work

Nothing truly wild is unclean.

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