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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!
John Muir
Around
Coming
Day
Directions
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Niccolo Machiavelli
One
Deceives
Allow
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Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
John Muir
Air
Alone
Befall
Course
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John Muir
Climb
Get
Good
Mountains
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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Destroyed
Treated
Revenge
Slight injury
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
John Muir
Alaska
Countries
Lover
Most
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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions
Niccolo Machiavelli
Simple
Inclined
Deceiver
Lack
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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.
John Muir
Away
Awhile
Break
Clean
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Niccolo Machiavelli
Willing
Everything
Share
Glory
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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.
John Muir
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.
John Muir
America
Barren
Been
Bitter
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To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.
Niccolo Machiavelli
People
Prince
Understand
Nature
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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.
John Muir
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.
John Muir
Best
Depends
Desirable
Feed
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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.
John Muir
Any
Away
Bark
Cannot
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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.
John Muir
Again
Best
Brightest
Built
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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Secure
Feared
Loved
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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?
John Muir
Beauty
Call
Dell
Devout
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Prince
Government
Dangerous
Elements
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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.
John Muir
Acquired
Approach
Away
Compelled
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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Hatred
Gained
Good
Work
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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.
John Muir
Bark
Birds
Brush
Centuries
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Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.
John Muir
Hungry
Like
People
Sheep
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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Prince
Never lack
Legitimate
Promise
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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.
John Muir
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.
John Muir
Any
Easier
Explain
Feel
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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Change
Leaves
Establishment
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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.
John Muir
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.
John Muir
Excursion
Far
Fellow
He
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Niccolo Machiavelli
Promise
Necessity
Past
Broken
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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.
John Muir
All The Facts
Anything
Astonished
Call
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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Men
Rise
Ambition
Attack
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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.
John Muir
Common
Companions
Creator
Creature
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Tardiness
Rob
Opportunity
Dispatch
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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.
John Muir
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.
John Muir
Another
Approaching
Columns
Enchantment
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Shrink
Offending
Inspire
Fear
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Sequoia seeds have flat wings, and glint and glance in their flight like a boy's kite.
John Muir
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.
John Muir
Birds
Board
Cherry
Cost
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Niccolo Machiavelli
Interested
Preserving
Status quo
Overthrow
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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.
John Muir
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.
John Muir
Creation
Earthquakes
Etc
Every
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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Attribute
Fortune
Achieved
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When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
John Muir
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.
John Muir
Best
Broad
Climb
Close
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A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Ruler
Faith
Interest
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John Muir
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.
John Muir
Allowing
Another
Beautiful
Building
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