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Caption: The John Muir Trail
Caption: This is a collection of the photos that I posted to Instagram as we were hiking...one each day that we were on the trail...accompanying words by John Muir.
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Caption: The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Caption: Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.
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Caption: The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Caption: I never saw a discontented tree.
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Caption: I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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Caption: We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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Caption: When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.
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Caption: Going to the mountains is going home.
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Caption: Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Caption: In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Caption: The whole wilderness seems to be alive and familiar, full of humanity. The very stones seem talkative, sympathetic, brotherly.
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Caption: One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Caption: This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
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Caption: The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Caption: 19 days. 230 miles. 80,000 ft. elevation change. One 10 year anniversary. 3 national parks. 1 national monument. 2 wilderness areas. 9 mountain passes. 1 sprained ankle. 1 blister. 20 pounds lost. A few smile wrinkles gained.
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