Nothing truly wild is unclean. ✨ John Muir (2011). My First Summer in …

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Nothing truly wild is unclean. ✨ John Muir (2011). My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. ✨ Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898
The power of imagination makes us infinite. ✨ John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). The Wilderness World of John Muir, p.321, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Nothing truly wild is unclean. ✨ John Muir (2011). My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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