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The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that there is in it.

George Matthew Adams (1920). “Up: A Little Book of Talks on how to Wake Up, Get Up, Think Up, Climb Up, Smile Up, Cheer Up, Work Up, Look Up, Help Up, Grow Up!”
The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that there is in it.