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• Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home
  hat wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life....
• Government protection should be thrown around every wild grove and forest on the mountains, as it is around every private orchard, and the trees in public parks.
  To say nothing of their value as fountains of timber, they are worth infinitely more than all the gardens and parks of towns....
• Going to the mountains is going home. -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)
• No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glacie
  or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!...
• These temple-destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism
  eem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar....
• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
  The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves....
• Glaciers move in tides. So do mountains. So do all things. -- John Mui
• Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.
  ) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers....
• Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.
  Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning....