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Nothing truly wild is unclean.

John Muir

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
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
Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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Deep Forest Forget Green Naturem Wood
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
As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Age Close Enjoyment Failure Nature Peace
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
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
The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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Calm Fall Forest Light Morning Nature Ripen
It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Dead Earn Earthquake Interesting People
Learn to live like the wild animals
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Animal Learning Live One Liner Travel Wild
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
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
This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Death Die Glory Mountain Reality Time
Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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Hiking Land Mountain Travel
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
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

Nothing truly wild is unclean.

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