“I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.”

— John Muir

September 1874, page 191
John of the Mountains, 1938

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Scottish-born American naturalist and author 1838–1914

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“I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.”

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