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

John Muir

Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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DAngry Home Nature Place Travel World
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
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
But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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Blow Darkness Display Impressive Night Storm Waves
Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Mountain Prize Reward Travel World
The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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Especially FAction Man Presumption Support Universe World
There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Mountain Nature Stream
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
Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Black Feeling Loneliness Night Silence
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
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
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
Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Beautiful Change Creation Destruction Nature
Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Beautiful Forest Maintain Marvelous Nature Stress
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Imagination Infinite Inspirational One Liner Power Success
I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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Animal Evidence Happen Trace

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