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Handbook/ 1934/ Smoky Mountains Hiking Club

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  • For we need this thing wilderness far more than it needs us. Civilizations (like glaciers) come and go, but the mountain and its forest continue the course of creation's destiny. And in this we mere humans can take part—by fitting our civilization to the mountain. This, friend Margaret, is the thing that you are doing (you and your Club- mates),—you who have wrought your portion of the Appalachian Trail,— you who cherish your strategic Smoky Mountains for yourselves and all America. To you, my age-old friends, go the depths of my fellow- felling—for the good year 1934 and the coming happy years of action. Your own, Benton MacKaye Nestor of the Appalachian Trail 11
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