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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

John Muir

The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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Civil Garden Increase Park Recognize Value World
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
Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Nature Peace Travel World
Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Listen Men Mountain Society Speak Wisdom Wise
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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Bless Conscious Divine Light Mountain Religion Touch Wait Worship
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Imagination Infinite Inspirational One Liner Power Success
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
Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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Build Feed Himself Individual Inspirational Lead Sight
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Finding Hitch Pick Try Universe
Going to the woods is going home.
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Home Nature One Liner Peace
As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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Benefit Exist God Man
It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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Afternoon Course Life Man Mountain Sunset
In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Nature One Liner Receive Seek Travel Walk
I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Care Live Love Nature Peace People Travel
Wildness is a necessity.
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Nature Necessary One Liner Travel Wild
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 touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

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