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By John Muir
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.
- Source
- Our National Parks, 1901 · Chapter I, The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West, first page
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- Internet Archive (Harvard University scan of the 1901 first edition, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company)
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From John Muir's Our National Parks (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901). This is the text of the first edition.