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 and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.

John Muir Our National Parks, 1901

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John Muir 1838–1914 · Scottish-American naturalist and advocate for wilderness preservation. Wikipedia

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