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The mountains are calling and I must go.

John Muir

It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Dead Earn Earthquake Interesting People
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.
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Alone Heart Hotel Nature Silence Travel Wild
Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Blind One Liner Opposition Progress
The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Aware Civilization Healing Wound
We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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Enthusiasm Hiking Mountain Nature Trekking
But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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Blow Darkness Display Impressive Night Storm Waves
Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Glacier Grind Life One Liner Writing
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
I never saw a discontented tree.
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Content Inspirational One Liner Tree
Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Nature One Liner Peace Sun Sunshine Tree
On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Death Ideas
Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Listen Men Mountain Society Speak Wisdom Wise
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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Bee Book Damage Flower Nature Sweet
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
The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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Belief Darkness Heart Ignorance Inspirational People Tree
One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Book Exposure Hiking Mountain Travel Trekking

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