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San Gabriel MountainsSan Gabriel Mountains"There is no exercise "There is no exercise

so beneficial, so beneficial, physically, mentally, or physically, mentally, or morally, nothing which morally, nothing which gives so much of living gives so much of living

for so little cost, as for so little cost, as hiking our mountain hiking our mountain

and hill trails and and hill trails and sleeping under the sleeping under the

stars."stars."—Will Thrall—Will Thrall

beneficialbeneficial"Away, away. from men and towns,To the wild wood and the downsTo the silent wildernessWhere the soul need not repress Its music."—Percy Bysshe Shelley, "To Jane: An Invitation," 1822

physicallyphysically"There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast."—Paul Scott Mowrer

mentallymentally"The most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from the strangling clutch of mechanistic civilization. To us the enjoyment of solitude, complete independence, and the beauty of undefiled panoramas is absolutely essential to happiness."—Robert Marshall

morallymorally"It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit."—Robert Louis Stevenson

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"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods   There is a rapture on the lonely shore      There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar         I love not man less, but Nature more."—Lord Byron