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I never saw a discontented tree.

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.
JOHN MUIR

Immortal Inspirational Life Summer Time True Wander
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
One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
JOHN MUIR

Book Exposure Hiking Mountain Travel Trekking
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
One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
JOHN MUIR

Care Healing Nature Peace Safety Self Love Travel
I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIR

Care Live Love Nature Peace People Travel
It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
JOHN MUIR

Afternoon Course Life Man Mountain Sunset
Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
JOHN MUIR

Beautiful Forest Maintain Marvelous Nature Stress
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
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
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
JOHN MUIR

Climb Hiking Mountain Tide Travel Trekking
The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
JOHN MUIR

Friendship Loneliness Sense Solitude
Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
JOHN MUIR

Mountain Prize Reward Travel World
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
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.
JOHN MUIR

Care Duty Love Mother Nature Recognize Wild
In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
JOHN MUIR

Deep Dry FAction Fire Healing Heart Plant

I never saw a discontented tree.

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