Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often hides.
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To rise above tree line is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into birdsong, bog orchids, willows, and firs is to sink into the preliterate parts of ourselves.
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Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far.
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To trace the history of a river, or a raindrop, as John Muir would have done, is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. In both we constantly seek and stumble on divinity, which, like the cornice feeding the lake and the spring becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills, falls, and feeds itself over and over again.
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There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both morality and invigoration.
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