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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.

John Muir

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 deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Friendship Loneliness Sense Solitude
Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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DAngry Home Nature Place Travel World
But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Government Nature Travel Wild
Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Fiber Hide Inspirational Life Music Nature String
It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Dead Earn Earthquake Interesting People
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Finding Forest Lost Mind Nature Soul Travel Trekking
Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Mountain Prize Reward Travel World
On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Death Ideas
Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Delicious Lungs Nature Tongue
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
Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Blind One Liner Opposition Progress
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
Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Listen Men Mountain Society Speak Wisdom Wise
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
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 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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