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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

John Muir

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
I never saw a discontented tree.
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Content Inspirational One Liner Tree
Learn to live like the wild animals
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Animal Learning Live One Liner Travel Wild
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
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
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
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
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
We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Information Knowledge One Liner Reach
Going to the mountains is going home.
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Hiking Home Mountain One Liner Travel Trekking
One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Care Healing Nature Peace Safety Self Love Travel
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
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
A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Immortal Nature Sick Young
Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
JOHN MUIR

Hiking Land Mountain Travel
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

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