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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.

John Muir

Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
JOHN MUIR

Hiking Land Mountain Travel
Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
JOHN MUIR

Blossom Change Darkness Flower Frozen Rain Rainbow Sky Snow
Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
JOHN MUIR

Blind One Liner Opposition Progress
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
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
Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
JOHN MUIR

Nature Peace Travel World
Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
JOHN MUIR

Beautiful Change Creation Destruction Nature
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
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
The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
JOHN MUIR

Civil Garden Increase Park Recognize Value World
As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
JOHN MUIR

Bird Hear Nature Peace Sing Travel Waterfall Winds
Going to the woods is going home.
JOHN MUIR

Home Nature One Liner Peace
Nothing dollarable is safe.
JOHN MUIR

Nature One Liner Safe Wild
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.
JOHN MUIR

Animal Evidence Happen Trace
Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
JOHN MUIR

Glacier Grind Life One Liner Writing
Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
JOHN MUIR

Beautiful Forest Maintain Marvelous Nature Stress

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