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How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof!...In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make—leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents, or piled stone—we all dwell in a house of one room—the world with the firmament for its roof—and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track.

John Muir

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Muir, John. Journal entry. 18 July 1890.

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The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot.

Henry Beston

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Beston, Henry. The Outermost House. Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1928, ch. 1.

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Beston, Henry. The Outermost House. Holt Paperbacks, 2003, ch. 1.

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Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Aldo Leopold

A Sand County Almanac

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Leopold, Aldo. "The Land Ethic." A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There. Oxford University Press, 1949.

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In God's wildness lies the hope of the world—the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness.

John Muir

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Muir, John. Journal entry. July 1890.

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Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

John Muir

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Muir, John. Journal entry. July 1890.

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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.

John Muir

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Muir, John. Journal entry. July 1890.

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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.

John Muir

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Muir, John. "The Yellowstone National Park." Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898.

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Muir, John. "The Yellowstone National Park." Our National Parks. Dover Publications, 2019.

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All the wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light.

John Muir

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Read My First Summer in the Sierra at Project Gutenberg

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Muir, John. Journal entry. 1869.

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Muir, John. "My First Summer in the Sierra." John Muir: Nature Writings. Library of America, 1997, ch. 10.

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A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.

Aldo Leopold

A Sand County Almanac

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Leopold, Aldo. "The Land Ethic." A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There. Oxford University Press, 1949.

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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

John Muir

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Muir, John. Journal entry. 1869.

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Muir, John. "My First Summer in the Sierra." John Muir: Nature Writings. Library of America, 1997, ch. 6.

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The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

Henry Beston

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Beston, Henry. The Outermost House. Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1928, ch. 3.

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Beston, Henry. The Outermost House. Holt Paperbacks, 2003, ch. 3.

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When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him Vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God we call him Sportsman.

Joseph Wood Krutch

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Krutch, Joseph Wood. "Reverence for Life: The Vandal and the Sportsman." The Great Chain of Life. Houghton Mifflin, 1956.

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We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

Aldo Leopold

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Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There. Oxford University Press, 1949, foreword.

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