"Keep close to Nature's heart … and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."
— John Muir

January 1, 1970

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statement by Muir as remembered by Samuel Hall Young in Alaska Days with John Muir (1915), chapter 7