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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.

John Muir

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
Wildness is a necessity.
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Nature Necessary One Liner Travel Wild
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
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
Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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DAngry Home Nature Place Travel World
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
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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Nature Travel Walk
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.
JOHN MUIR

Belief Darkness Heart Ignorance Inspirational People Tree
Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Black Feeling Loneliness Night Silence
As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
JOHN MUIR

Bird Hear Nature Peace Sing Travel Waterfall Winds
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
It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
JOHN MUIR

Dead Earn Earthquake Interesting People
The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Aware Civilization Healing Wound
Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
JOHN MUIR

Fiber Hide Inspirational Life Music Nature String
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.
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Church Mountain Nature Religion Time Turn

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