Most people are on the world, not in it. - have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them undiffused, separate, andrigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.
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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
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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.
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