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Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

Away Awhile Break Clean
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One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

Been Cathedrals Churches Dam
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Every other civilized nation in the world has been compelled to care for its forests, and so must we if waste and destruction are not to go on to the bitter end, leaving America as barren as Palestine or Spain.

America Barren Been Bitter
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The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner.

Also Begin Damage Few
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In most mills, only the best portions of the best trees are used, while the ruins are left on the ground to feed great fires which kill much of what is left of the less desirable timber, together with the seedlings on which the permanence of the forest depends.

Best Depends Desirable Feed
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Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.

Any Away Bark Cannot
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Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

Again Best Brightest Built
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The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?

Beauty Call Dell Devout
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The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.

Acquired Approach Away Compelled
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Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those of wood rats, while their more enduring monuments, excepting those wrought on the forests by the fires they made to improve their hunting grounds, vanish in a few centuries.

Bark Birds Brush Centuries
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Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

Hungry Like People Sheep
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Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

Animal Clean Earth Eating
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It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.

Any Easier Explain Feel
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Beetles and butterflies are sometimes restricted to small areas. Each mountain in a range, and even the different zones of a mountain, may have its own peculiar species. But the house-fly seems to be everywhere. I wonder if any island in mid-ocean is flyless.

Any Area Butterflies Different
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A queer fellow and a jolly fellow is the grasshopper. Up the mountains he comes on excursions, how high I don't know, but at least as far and high as Yosemite tourists.

Excursion Far Fellow He
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God's universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

All The Facts Anything Astonished Call
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From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

Common Companions Creator Creature
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Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature's forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

Adventurous Armed Beasts Came
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No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

Another Approaching Columns Enchantment
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Sequoia seeds have flat wings, and glint and glance in their flight like a boy's kite.

Boy Flat Flight Glance
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The dispersal of juniper seeds is effected by the plum and cherry plan of hiring birds at the cost of their board, and thus obtaining the use of a pair of extra good wings.

Birds Board Cherry Cost
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In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

Avalanche Came Danger End
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Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love.

Creation Earthquakes Etc Every
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When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

California Continent Part Wild
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One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

Best Broad Climb Close
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Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.
Best Climbed Like Mountain
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Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

Allowing Another Beautiful Building
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I have heard of Texas pioneers living without bread or anything made from the cereals for months without suffering, using the breast-meat of wild turkeys for bread. Of this kind, they had plenty in the good old days when life, though considered less safe, was fussed over the less.

Anything Bread Considered Days
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Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

Etc Expressions Flow Fountain
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I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

Determined Devote God Inventions
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Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

Calm Days Divine Equally
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Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them... may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

Coming Conductor Contact Divinity
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.

Baptist Beauty Care Eager
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How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

Accustomed Downright Earthquakes How
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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.

Alone Baggage Chatter Dust
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Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

Ability Behave How Patience
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Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

Beautiful Beauty Consider Deep
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A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
Anywhere Dream Pencil Take
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A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.
As Far As BMW Diploma Far
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I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.

Better Children Every Generation
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I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

Ask Because Embarrassed Every
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I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

Another Believes Kind Man
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If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

Abortion American Any Both
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My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.
About Dad Did How
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You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.

Because Body Listen Listening
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We teach people how to treat us

How People Teach Treat
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It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.

Alone Better Else Healthy
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If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

More Require Want You
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Awareness without action is worthless.

Action Awareness Without Worthless
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Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Else Give Got Just
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