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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.

John Muir

In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Deep Dry FAction Fire Healing Heart Plant
A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Immortal Nature Sick Young
There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Mountain Nature Stream
In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Nature One Liner Receive Seek Travel Walk
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
Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Listen Men Mountain Society Speak Wisdom Wise
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
In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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Beautiful Forest Individual Nature Species Tree Variety
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.
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Ash Care Dust Grace Ignorance Inspirational Knowledge People Time Work Work Hard
Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Beautiful Children Communication Death Life Nature Walk
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
Going to the woods is going home.
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Home Nature One Liner Peace
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
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
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
Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Delicious Lungs Nature Tongue

At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.

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