“To the sane and free it will hardly seem necessary to cross the continent in search of wild beauty, however easy the way, for they find it in abundance wherever they chance to be.”
Source: 1900s, Our National Parks (1901), chapter 1: The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West
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III, 1445-49
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