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One must labor for beauty as for bread.

John Muir

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
Learn to live like the wild animals
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Animal Learning Live One Liner Travel Wild
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
Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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Angel Guardian Guide Inspirational People Sheep Storm
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
The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Deep Healing Inspirational One Liner Sun Sunshine
On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Death Ideas
Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Fiber Hide Inspirational Life Music Nature String
Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Mountain Prize Reward Travel World
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
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
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
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
Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Deep Dirty Inspirational Life Nature Path Travel
No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Beautiful God One Liner Perfecton Synonym
Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Blind One Liner Opposition Progress
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
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
Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Beautiful Forest Maintain Marvelous Nature Stress
Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Delicious Lungs Nature Tongue
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
Wildness is a necessity.
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Nature Necessary One Liner Travel Wild
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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Beginning Civil Finding Hiking Home Mountain People Tired Trekking Wild
The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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Belief Darkness Heart Ignorance Inspirational People Tree
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
The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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Calm Fall Forest Light Morning Nature Ripen
Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Beautiful Change Creation Destruction Nature

One must labor for beauty as for bread.

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