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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

John Muir

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
Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Hiking Mountain Nature One Liner Trekking Unclean
The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Aware Civilization Healing Wound
How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
JOHN MUIR

Blind Creature Narrow Selfish Sympathy
I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
JOHN MUIR

Light Love Moon Run Stride Strong Sun
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
The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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Especially FAction Man Presumption Support Universe World
Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Beautiful Change Creation Destruction Nature
Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
JOHN MUIR

Book Direction Guide Ignorant People Power Travel
In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
JOHN MUIR

God Hope One Liner Wild World
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
JOHN MUIR

Animal Care Clear Earth Forest Universe 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.
JOHN MUIR

Dead Earn Earthquake Interesting People
In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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Beautiful Forest Individual Nature Species Tree Variety
I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIR

Care Live Love Nature Peace People Travel
There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
JOHN MUIR

Mountain Nature Stream

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

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