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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.

About Feeling Like People
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Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

Absent Any Apt Call
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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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The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.

Climate Forests Importance Our
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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Civilization Destroyed Generally Gross
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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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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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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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.

Destroyed Treated Revenge Slight injury
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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

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.

Away Awhile Break Clean
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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
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.

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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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 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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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

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.

Any Area Butterflies Different
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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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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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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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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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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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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

Surer Decay Country Religion
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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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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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If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.

Be Happy Big God Happy
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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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Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease.

Addictions Attempts Because Best
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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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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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I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

Addict Any Became Because
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A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.

Controlling Different Give Jobs
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Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.

Discipline Need Others Yourself
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Ability is a poor man's wealth.
Ability Man Poor Wealth
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You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.
Because Controlling Done I Want You
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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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We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people.

Control Jesus Name Painful
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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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