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A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

Branches Cease Ear Enthusiasm
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I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

Been Better Cattle Change
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Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself

Conquers Demolish Commits Great error.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
Gives Glorious Greeting How
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I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

About As Far As Discontented Far
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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Titles Honor Men
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Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

Around Coming Day Directions
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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
One Deceives Allow
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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

Destroyed Treated Revenge Slight injury
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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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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
Wish Obeyed Command
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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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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

Benefits Conferred Gradually Taste better.
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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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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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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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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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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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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Shrink Offending Inspire Fear
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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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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

Attribute Fortune Achieved
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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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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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If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Injury Severe Vengeance Feared
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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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I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

About Afraid Because Book
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Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Anything Achieved Danger
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We are a nation of people who are afraid we are not enough.

Afraid Enough Nation People
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We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.

Constant Exposed Family Fear
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It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

Presupposed Arrange law Evil
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I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.

Boy Brother Could Father
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The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked.

Back Bible Get Giving
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Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

Ability Accomplished Measure Should
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Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Best For The People Make Out
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A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them.

Also Around Feelings Her
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A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

Causing Coach Correction Give
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What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.

Cannot Happens People Reality
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It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

Finishes Game Important Starts
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There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

America Angry Change Heart
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Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.

About Army Book Church
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I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.

Am Beliefs Common Common Man
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Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

Argue Life People Smart
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I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing.

Any Background Been Biology
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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

Before Belong Declare Devoted
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There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

Acquired Arriving Cannot Essential
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