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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

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
Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Listen Men Mountain Society Speak Wisdom Wise
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
On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Death Ideas
Learn to live like the wild animals
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Animal Learning Live One Liner Travel Wild
Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Beautiful Children Communication Death Life Nature Walk
As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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Benefit Exist God Man
A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Immortal Nature Sick Young
How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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Blind Creature Narrow Selfish Sympathy
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
The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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Calm Fall Forest Light Morning Nature Ripen
I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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Close Friendship Learning Live Measure Separate Soul
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Nature One Liner Touch Travel World
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Imagination Infinite Inspirational One Liner Power Success
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
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Greet Mountain One Liner Sun Trekking

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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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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