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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

Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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Immortal Inspirational Life Summer Time True Wander
The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Aware Civilization Healing Wound
Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Earth Healing Inspirational Nature Pain Sorrow
The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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Belief Darkness Heart Ignorance Inspirational People Tree
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
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
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
Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Glacier Grind Life One Liner Writing
In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Church Mountain Nature Religion Time Turn
In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Deep Dry FAction Fire Healing Heart Plant
Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Beautiful Children Communication Death Life Nature Walk
But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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Blow Darkness Display Impressive Night Storm Waves
There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Mountain Nature Stream
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
Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Beautiful Forest Maintain Marvelous Nature Stress
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.

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