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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

John Muir

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
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
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
No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Beautiful God One Liner Perfecton Synonym
Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Nature One Liner Safe Wild
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
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
Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Beautiful Forest Maintain Marvelous Nature Stress
Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Beautiful Change Creation Destruction Nature
In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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God Hope One Liner Wild World
There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Mountain Nature Stream
How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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Blind Creature Narrow Selfish Sympathy
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
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
One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Book Exposure Hiking Mountain Travel Trekking
In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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