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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

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All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

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The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

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It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?