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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.

John Muir

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Greet Mountain One Liner Sun Trekking
Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Nature Peace Travel World
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Imagination Infinite Inspirational One Liner Power Success
Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Delicious Lungs Nature Tongue
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.
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Civil Garden Increase Park Recognize Value World
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.
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Afternoon Course Life Man Mountain Sunset
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.
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Ash Care Dust Grace Ignorance Inspirational Knowledge People Time Work Work Hard
So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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Affair Bound Flood Master Men Tide
Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Listen Men Mountain Society Speak Wisdom Wise
I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Care Live Love Nature Peace People Travel
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
In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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Beautiful Forest Individual Nature Species Tree Variety
In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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God Hope One Liner Wild World
If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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Environment Forest Hear Nature People Preservation Speak Tree Vanish Wood
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.
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Immortal Inspirational Life Summer Time True Wander
Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Children Fear Hiking One Liner Travel Trekking
The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Aware Civilization Healing Wound
The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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Body Flow Past Peace River Sing Substance Vibrate
Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Fiber Hide Inspirational Life Music Nature String
Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Nature One Liner Peace Sun Sunshine Tree
Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Glacier Grind Life One Liner Writing
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
The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Deep Healing Inspirational One Liner Sun Sunshine
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
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
A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Immortal Nature Sick Young
At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
JOHN MUIR

Bless Conscious Divine Light Mountain Religion Touch Wait Worship

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