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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.

John Muir

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
There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
JOHN MUIR

Fragment Harmony Nature Relative
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.
JOHN MUIR

Holiday Nature Wander Wild World
Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
JOHN MUIR

Beautiful Children Communication Death Life Nature Walk
In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
JOHN MUIR

Beautiful Forest Individual Nature Species Tree Variety
Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Beautiful Beneath Beyond Forever Nature
I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
JOHN MUIR

Light Love Moon Run Stride Strong Sun
The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
JOHN MUIR

Especially FAction Man Presumption Support Universe World
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
We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Information Knowledge One Liner Reach
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
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
JOHN MUIR

Direction Freedom Hiking Mountain Peace Quiet Walk
I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
JOHN MUIR

Close Friendship Learning Live Measure Separate Soul
A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Immortal Nature Sick Young
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
The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
JOHN MUIR

Aware Civilization Healing Wound

One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.

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