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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.

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
Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Delicious Lungs Nature Tongue
On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Death Ideas
The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Deep Healing Inspirational One Liner Sun Sunshine
Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Nature One Liner Safe 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
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
The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Aware Civilization Healing Wound
To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Alaska Country Love Lovers Travel Wonderful World
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
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
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
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 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
As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Age Close Enjoyment Failure Nature Peace

Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.

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