The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortun…

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The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books ✨ Theodore Roosevelt (1941). Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia
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