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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.

John Muir

Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Beautiful Forest Maintain Marvelous Nature Stress
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
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
Going to the mountains is going home.
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Hiking Home Mountain One Liner Travel Trekking
Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Gold Hide Nature One Liner Wild
Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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Build Feed Himself Individual Inspirational Lead Sight
The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Deep Healing Inspirational One Liner Sun Sunshine
But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Government Nature Travel Wild
What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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Earth Fresh Leaf Psalm Sing Smell Storm Sweet Voice Wash
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
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.
JOHN MUIR

Ash Care Dust Grace Ignorance Inspirational Knowledge People Time Work Work Hard
On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIR

Death Ideas
There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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Fragment Harmony Nature Relative
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
The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Friendship Loneliness Sense Solitude
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.
JOHN MUIR

Belief Darkness Heart Ignorance Inspirational People Tree

On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.

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