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Nothing truly wild is unclean.

John Muir

There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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Care Duty Love Mother Nature Recognize Wild
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
Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Children Fear Hiking One Liner Travel Trekking
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
Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Blind One Liner Opposition Progress
Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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Immortal Inspirational Life Summer Time True Wander
I never saw a discontented tree.
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Content Inspirational One Liner Tree
Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Beautiful Forest Maintain Marvelous Nature Stress
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
If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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Environment Forest Hear Nature People Preservation Speak Tree Vanish Wood
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
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
We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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Enthusiasm Hiking Mountain Nature Trekking
The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Deep Healing Inspirational One Liner Sun Sunshine
A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Immortal Nature Sick Young
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

Nothing truly wild is unclean.

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