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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.

John Muir

Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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Ash Care Dust Grace Ignorance Inspirational Knowledge People Time Work Work Hard
Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Beautiful Beneath Beyond Forever Nature
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
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
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
Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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Hiking Land Mountain Travel
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Attachment Finding Inspirational Nature World
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
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
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
Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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Immortal Inspirational Life Summer Time True Wander
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
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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Bee Book Damage Flower Nature Sweet
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Greet Mountain One Liner Sun 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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Beautiful Bread Labor Life One Liner

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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