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The sun shines not on us but in us.

John Muir

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
We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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Enthusiasm Hiking Mountain Nature 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
The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Excitement Hiking Mountain One Liner Travel Trekking
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
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
I never saw a discontented tree.
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Content Inspirational One Liner Tree
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
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
What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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Earth Fresh Leaf Psalm Sing Smell Storm Sweet Voice Wash
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Finding Hitch Pick Try Universe
Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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Deep Forest Forget Green Naturem Wood
Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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Blossom Change Darkness Flower Frozen Rain Rainbow Sky Snow
There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Mountain Nature Stream
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
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Nature One Liner Touch Travel World

The sun shines not on us but in us.

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