Brought into right relationships with the wilderness, man would see that his appropriation of Earth's resourcesbeyond his personal needs would only bring imbalance and begat ultimate loss and poverty by all.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.John Muir
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
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Most people are on the world, not in it. - have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them undiffused, separate, andrigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.
John Muir
The clearest way to the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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