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• I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.
  -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)...
• As goatherd learns his trade by goat, so writer learns his trade by wrote.
  As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing....
• 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....
• The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. -- Frank Lloyd Wrigh
• 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....
• It has been said that trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment rooted in the ground.
  But they never seem so to me. I never saw a discontented tree....
• How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind!
  The spiritual eye sees not only rivers of water but of air....
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• Range of Light: Looking eastward from the summit of Pacheco Pass one shining morning, a landscape was displayed that after all my wanderings still appears as the most beautiful I have ever beheld.
  At my feet lay the Great Central Valley of California, level and flowery, like a lake of pure sunshine, forty or fifty miles wide, five hundred miles long, one rich furred garden of yellow Compositae....