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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.
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Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.
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Observe continually that all things exist in change; and keep this thought ever with you, that Nature loves nothing more than changing what things now are, and making others like them.
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None other than this long brown land lays such a hold on the affections. The rainbow hills, the tender bluish mists, the luminous radiance of the spring, have the lotus charm.
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For we never can make anything our own except that which is truly related to us.
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The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.
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The hours when the mind is absorbed by beauty are the only hours when we really live, so that the longer we can stay among these things so much the more is snatched from inevitable Time.
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Just to touch the lichened bark of a tree, or the end of a spray projecting over the path as I walked, seemed to repeat the same prayer in me.
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Very, very early in my boyhood I had acquired the habit of going about alone to amuse myself in my own way.