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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....
• 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....
• 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....
• 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!...
• The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil.
  The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops....
• 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....
• 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....
• 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....
• 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....