"Living artificially in towns, we are sickly, and never come to know ourselves."
— John Muir

January 1, 1970

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"Explorations in the Great Tuolumne Cañon", Overland Monthly, volume XI, number 2 (August 1873) pages 139-147 (at page 146); modified and reprinted in John of the Mountains (1938), page 77