“Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.”

Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

(The New Republic)

A new book argues that America’s forests and streams provide far more value than they cost to support.

“The rights of posterity​ are more important​ than​ the desires​ of the present.” — Fredrick Law Olmsted.

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