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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.

John Muir

We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
JOHN MUIR

Information Knowledge One Liner Reach
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
One must labor for beauty as for bread.
JOHN MUIR

Beautiful Bread Labor Life One Liner
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
JOHN MUIR

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.
JOHN MUIR

Alone Heart Hotel Nature Silence Travel Wild
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.
JOHN MUIR

Environment Forest Hear Nature People Preservation Speak Tree Vanish Wood
What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
JOHN MUIR

Earth Fresh Leaf Psalm Sing Smell Storm Sweet Voice Wash
But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
JOHN MUIR

Government Nature Travel Wild
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
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
The mountains are calling and I must go.
JOHN MUIR

Excitement Hiking Mountain One Liner Travel Trekking
Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
JOHN MUIR

Deep Dirty Inspirational Life Nature Path Travel
Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
JOHN MUIR

Beautiful Beneath Beyond Forever Nature
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
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.
JOHN MUIR

Deep Forest Forget Green Naturem Wood
Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
JOHN MUIR

Book Direction Guide Ignorant People Power Travel

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