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John Muir

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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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letter to wife Louie (Louisa Wanda Strentzel) (July 1888); published in William Federic Bad?, The Life and Letters of John Muir (1924), chapter 15: Winning a Competence

 
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