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The sun shines not on us but in us.

John Muir

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
I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Light Love Moon Run Stride Strong Sun
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
One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
JOHN MUIR

Care Healing Nature Peace Safety Self Love Travel
Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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Book Direction Guide Ignorant People Power Travel
Going to the mountains is going home.
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Hiking Home Mountain One Liner Travel Trekking
The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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Body Flow Past Peace River Sing Substance Vibrate
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
Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Joy Nature One Liner Spring Work
This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Death Die Glory Mountain Reality Time
Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Gold Hide Nature One Liner Wild
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Animal Care Clear Earth Forest Universe 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
In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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God Hope One Liner Wild World
In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Church Mountain Nature Religion Time Turn
Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Mountain Prize Reward Travel World

The sun shines not on us but in us.

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