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

John Muir

Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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Beautiful Body Cheer Healing Nature Place Play Pray Soul Strength
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
There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Mountain Nature Stream
Learn to live like the wild animals
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Animal Learning Live One Liner Travel Wild
Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Hiking Mountain Nature One Liner Trekking Unclean
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
Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Delicious Lungs Nature Tongue
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
I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Light Love Moon Run Stride Strong Sun
The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Darkness Nature One Liner Travel World
Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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Book Direction Guide Ignorant People Power Travel
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
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Attachment Finding Inspirational Nature World
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
Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Beautiful Change Creation Destruction Nature
I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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Animal Evidence Happen Trace

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