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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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Fears vanish as soon as one is fairly free in the wilderness.
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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.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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The mountains are calling and I must go, and I will work on while I can, studying incessantly.
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Every feature became more rigidly alpine, without, however, producing any chilling effect; for going to the mountains is like going home.
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The dullest eye in the world must surely be quickened by such trees as these.