“Good walkers can go anywhere in these hospitable mountains without artificial ways.”

—  John Muir

letter to Howard Palmer (12 December 1912); published in William Federic Badè, The Life and Letters of John Muir http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/life/life_and_letters/default.aspx (1924), chapter 17, II
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