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• No pain here, no dull empty hours, no fear of the past, no fear of the future.
  Drinking this champagne water is pure pleasure, so is breathing the living air. -- John Mui...
• Our crude civilization engenders a multitude of wants, and law-givers are ever at their wit's end devising.
  The hall and the theater and the church have been invented, and compulsory education....
• It was not like taking the veil. No solemn adjuration of the world.
  I only went out for a walk and finally decided to stay till sundown....
• Going to the mountains is going home. -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)
• I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of Ede
  but I do so no more, because I have discovered that I also live in "creation's dawn....
• My fire was in all its glory about midnight, and, having made a bark shed to shelter me from the rain and partially dry my clothing
  I had nothing to do but look and listen and join the trees in their hymns and prayers....
• Everything is flowing -- going somewhere, animals and so- called lifeless rocks as well as water.
  Thus the snow flows fast or slow in grand beauty-making glaciers and avalanche...
• Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness.
  All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter....
• How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind!
  The spiritual eye sees not only rivers of water but of air....