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“As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail. Like a generous host, she offers her brimming cups in endless variety, served in a grand hall, the sky its ceiling, the mountains its walls, decorated with glorious paintings and enlivened with bands of music ever playing.”

Age Failing Sky Painting Source Wall Offers Band Mountain Endless Cups Variety Generous Enjoyment Glorious Halls Host Ceilings

Book:The American Wilderness: In the Words of John Muir

Source: The American Wilderness: In the Words of John Muir

“Do not fail to learn from The pure voice of an Ever-flowing mountain stream Splashing over the rocks.”

Voice Failing Rocks Pure Mountain Streams Splashing Mountain Streams

Book:The Art of Peace

Source: The Art of Peace

“Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild Mingled in harmony on Nature's face, Ascend our rocky mountains. Let thy foot Fail not with weariness, for on their tops The beauty and the majesty of earth, Spread wide beneath, shall make thee to forget The steep and toilsome way.”

Way Earth Faces Forget Failing Feet Mountain Harmony Spread Wide Lovely Thee Landscape Majesty Weariness Steep Rocky Mountain

Author:William C. Bryant

“I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer. And perhaps with better cause, for while a buck pulled down by wolves can be replaced in two or three years, a range pulled down by too many deer may fail of replacement in as many decades.”

Years May Doe Two Three Causes Failing Mountain Decades Mortals Range Suspects Three Years Replaced Bucks Herds Deer Replacements

Book:A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

“Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life around you -- the dulness, and the earthliness, and the brutishness of men? Fret not. Go forward into the realm which stretches before you; climb the highest mountain you can reach, and plant a cross there. The nations will come up to it some day. Work for immortality if you will; then wait for it. If your own age fail to recognize you, a coming age will not.”

Ifs Men Age Nations Waiting Failing Possibility Poet Mountain Highest Ideals Crosses Plant Come Up Immortality Realms Prophet Climbs Dreamer Impatient

Author:J. G. Holland

“I see many people trying to write well about the wilderness, and essentially failing. To me there are basically two aspects of a failed outdoor story. One is the phony epiphany on the mountain top.”

People Writing Trying Wells Two Stories Failing Mountain Aspect Wilderness Epiphany Phony Mountain Top

Author:Tim Cahill