“God never made an ugly landscape. All that the sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.”

— John Muir

pages 16-21 (at page 16)
1890s, The National Parks and Forest Reservations, 1895

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Scottish-born American naturalist and author 1838–1914

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