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.
Awakening from the stupefying effects of the vice of over-industry and
the deadly apathy of luxury, they are trying as best they can to mix and
enrich their own little ongoings with those of Nature, and to get rid
of rust and disease.”
― John Muir, Our National Parks
― John Muir, Our National Parks