"Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings."
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"The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual."
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"At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed."
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"To lovers of the wild, these mountains are not a hundred miles away. Their spiritual power and the goodness of the sky make them near, as a circle of friends. ... You cannot feel yourself out of doors; plain, sky, and mountains ray beauty which you feel. You bathe in these spirit-beams, turning round and round, as if warming at a camp-fire. Presently you lose consciousness of your own separate existence: you blend with the landscape, and become part and parcel of nature."
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"When you tug at a single thing in the universe, you'll find its attached to everything else."
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"What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow - inside."
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"There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself."
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"How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind!"
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"To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible."
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"Wander here a whole summer, if you can ... Thousands of wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted"
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"One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else."
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"...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of beginnings abounding in first lessons of life, mountain building, eternal, invincible, unbreakable order; with sermons in stone, storms, trees, flowers, and animals brimful with humanity."
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"No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty."
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"I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine."
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"I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness."
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"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our own must be beating in every crystal and cell, and we feel like stopping to speak to the plants and animals as friendly fellow-mountaineers. Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go."
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"I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's fate on a noble mountain, or in the heart of a glacier, would be blessed as compared with death from disease, or from some shabby lowland accident. But the best death, quick and crystal-pure, set so glaringly open before us, is hard enough to face, even though we feel gratefully sure that we have already had happiness enough for a dozen lives."
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"One can make a day of any size"
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"Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?"
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"Do behold the king in his glory, King Sequoia. Behold! Behold! seems all I can say.... Well may I fast, not from bread but from business, bookmaking, duty doing & other trifles.... I’m in the woods woods woods, & they are in mee-ee-ee.... I wish I were wilder & so bless Sequoia I will be."
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