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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.

John Muir

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
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
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
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
The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Aware Civilization Healing Wound
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
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
Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Beautiful Change Creation Destruction Nature
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
One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Beautiful Bread Labor Life One Liner
This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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Defend Frost Love Lover Nature Rejoice Reservation Wild
Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Beautiful Forest Maintain Marvelous Nature Stress
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
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
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

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