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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.

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
But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Government Nature Travel Wild
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Greet Mountain One Liner Sun Trekking
Wildness is a necessity.
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Nature Necessary One Liner Travel Wild
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
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
Going to the mountains is going home.
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Hiking Home Mountain One Liner Travel Trekking
Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Delicious Lungs Nature Tongue
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
Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Earth Healing Inspirational Nature Pain Sorrow
This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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Defend Frost Love Lover Nature Rejoice Reservation Wild
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
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
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
Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Blind One Liner Opposition Progress
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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Care Disease Flood Fools God Save Tree

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