Going to the mountains is going home. -- John Muir,

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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;
  that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks...
• 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...
• 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...
• No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers,
  or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements...
• The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers,
  of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers...
• 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...
• Government protection should be thrown around every wild grove and forest on the mountains,
  as it is around every private orchard, and the trees...
• Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life,
  their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods...
• 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...