John Muir: A Love of Wild Nature

There is a love of wild nature in everybody,

an ancient mother-love ever showing itself whether 

recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.

- From John Muir's journals, 

Cited in Wilderness World of John Muir, edited by Edwin Way Teale (1954); 

and A Passion for Nature by Donald Worster (2008) 
 

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