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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.

John Muir

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
In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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God Hope One Liner Wild World
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.
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Body Flow Past Peace River Sing Substance Vibrate
There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Mountain Nature Stream
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
On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIR

Death Ideas
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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Nature Travel Walk
Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
JOHN MUIR

Deep Dirty Inspirational Life Nature Path Travel
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
JOHN MUIR

Attachment Finding Inspirational Nature World
Going to the mountains is going home.
JOHN MUIR

Hiking Home Mountain One Liner Travel Trekking
But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
JOHN MUIR

Blow Darkness Display Impressive Night Storm Waves
Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
JOHN MUIR

Change Door Inspirational Nature Travel World
In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Church Mountain Nature Religion Time Turn
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
Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
JOHN MUIR

Beautiful Change Creation Destruction Nature
But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
JOHN MUIR

Government Nature Travel Wild

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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