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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Only spread a fern frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Thousands of God's wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted.
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Standing here in the deep, brooding silence all the wilderness seems motionless, as if the work of creation were done.
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Everything kept in joyful rhythmic motion in the pulses of Nature's big heart.
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The whole world seems richer now that I have found this plant in so noble a landscape.
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To the sane and free it will hardly seem necessary to cross the continent in search of wild beauty, however easy the way, for they find it in abundance wherever they chance to be.
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After listening to it in all kinds of winds, night and day, season after season, I think I could approximate to my position on the mountains by this pine-music alone.
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Every feature became more rigidly alpine, without, however, producing any chilling effect; for going to the mountains is like going home.