"Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally." -- John Muir
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"In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages. ... In the woods, we return to reason and faith." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"I would not have every man, nor every part of a man, cultivated any more than I would have every acre of earth cultivated." -- Henry David Thoreau
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"Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams." -- Henry David Thoreau
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