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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.

John Muir

The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
JOHN MUIR

Calm Fall Forest Light Morning Nature Ripen
Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Mountain Prize Reward Travel World
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
This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
JOHN MUIR

Defend Frost Love Lover Nature Rejoice Reservation Wild
The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
JOHN MUIR

Aware Civilization Healing Wound
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.
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Holiday Nature Wander Wild World
This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Death Die Glory Mountain Reality Time
Take me into the mountains.
JOHN MUIR

Hiking Mountain One Liner Peace Travel Trekking
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
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.
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Blossom Change Darkness Flower Frozen Rain Rainbow Sky Snow
On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Death Ideas
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
To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
JOHN MUIR

Alaska Country Love Lovers Travel Wonderful World
No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Beautiful God One Liner Perfecton Synonym
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.
JOHN MUIR

Care Disease Flood Fools God Save Tree
The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
JOHN MUIR

Darkness Nature One Liner Travel World

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