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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.

John Muir

I never saw a discontented tree.
JOHN MUIR

Content Inspirational One Liner Tree
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.
JOHN MUIR

Animal Evidence Happen Trace
There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
JOHN MUIR

Fragment Harmony Nature Relative
The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
JOHN MUIR

Calm Fall Forest Light Morning Nature Ripen
In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
JOHN MUIR

Nature One Liner Receive Seek Travel Walk
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.
JOHN MUIR

Civil Garden Increase Park Recognize Value World
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
JOHN MUIR

Bee Book Damage Flower Nature Sweet
The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
JOHN MUIR

Especially FAction Man Presumption Support Universe World
In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
JOHN MUIR

Church Mountain Nature Religion Time Turn
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
JOHN MUIR

Finding Forest Lost Mind Nature Soul Travel Trekking
Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
JOHN MUIR

Beautiful Children Communication Death Life Nature Walk
The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
JOHN MUIR

Body Flow Past Peace River Sing Substance Vibrate
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
JOHN MUIR

Direction Freedom Hiking Mountain Peace Quiet Walk
I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIR

Care Live Love Nature Peace People 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.
JOHN MUIR

Benefit Exist God Man
In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
JOHN MUIR

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