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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.

John Muir

Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Blind One Liner Opposition Progress
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
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
Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Alone Harm One Liner Peace Quiet Silence Travel
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
I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Light Love Moon Run Stride Strong Sun
No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Beautiful God One Liner Perfecton Synonym
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
Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Listen Men Mountain Society Speak Wisdom Wise
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
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
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
Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Nature One Liner Safe Wild
Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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Beautiful Body Cheer Healing Nature Place Play Pray Soul Strength
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
As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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Benefit Exist God Man

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