One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books. ✨ …

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One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books. ✨ John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, p.95, Univ of Wisconsin Press
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