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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)...
• One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature -- inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste.
  And yet when we look into any of her operations that lie within reach of our minds, we learn that no particle of her material is wasted or worn out....
• A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity.
  If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery....
• We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it.
  We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-governme...
• Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening.
  [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role....
• How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind!
  The spiritual eye sees not only rivers of water but of air....
• With the first link, a chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.
  -- Picard, ST:TNG, quoting a fictional judge, The Drumhead...
• I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.
  -- E. M. Forste...
• Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life
  heir joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life....