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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.

John Muir

As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Age Close Enjoyment Failure Nature Peace
It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Natural Nature One Liner Peace Understand
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.
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Animal Evidence Happen Trace
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
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Nature One Liner Touch Travel World
There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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Care Duty Love Mother Nature Recognize Wild
This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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Defend Frost Love Lover Nature Rejoice Reservation Wild
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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Care Disease Flood Fools God Save Tree
The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Aware Civilization Healing Wound
Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Hiking Mountain Nature One Liner Trekking Unclean
How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
JOHN MUIR

Blind Creature Narrow Selfish Sympathy
Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Joy Nature One Liner Spring Work
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
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.
JOHN MUIR

Ash Care Dust Grace Ignorance Inspirational Knowledge People Time Work Work Hard
This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
JOHN MUIR

Death Die Glory Mountain Reality Time
Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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Hiking Land Mountain Travel

We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.

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