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Only spread a fern frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Thousands of God's wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted.
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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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Standing here in the deep, brooding silence all the wilderness seems motionless, as if the work of creation were done.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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.