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