The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
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To some, beauty seems but an accident of creation to Muir it was the very smile of God.John Muir
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home that wildness isa necessity and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen
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Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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