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The sun shines not on us but in us.

John Muir

Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Black Feeling Loneliness Night Silence
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
I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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Close Friendship Learning Live Measure Separate Soul
A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Immortal Nature Sick Young
In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Deep Dry FAction Fire Healing Heart Plant
Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Listen Men Mountain Society Speak Wisdom Wise
Going to the mountains is going home.
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Hiking Home Mountain One Liner Travel Trekking
The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Darkness Nature One Liner Travel World
Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Change Door Inspirational Nature Travel World
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Nature One Liner Touch Travel World
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
There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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Fragment Harmony Nature Relative
Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Nature Peace Travel World
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
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
Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
JOHN MUIR

Delicious Lungs Nature Tongue

The sun shines not on us but in us.

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