The tendency nowadays to wander in wildernesses is delightful to see. Thousandsof tired, n

The tendency nowadays to wander in wildernesses is delightful to see. Thousands

of tired, nerve-shaking, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to 【S1】______

mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and mountain parks and 【S2】______

reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, and as 【S3】______

fountains of life. Awakening from the stupefying effects of the vicious of over-industry【S4】______

and the deadly apathy of luxury, they are trying as best they can to mix and enrich their

own little ongoings with that of Nature, and to get rid of rust and disease. Briskly 【S5】______

venturing and roaming, some are washing off sins and cares of the devil's spinning in

storms on mountains; sauntering in pinewoods or in meadows, brushing through

chaparral, bending down and parting sweet, flowery sprays; tracing rivers back their 【S6】______

sources, getting in touch with the nerves of Mother Earth; jumping from rock to rock,

panting in whole-souled exercise, and rejoicing, in deep, long-drawn breathes of pure 【S7】______

wildness. This is fine and natural and full of promise. So also was the growing interest【S8】______

in the care and preservation of forests and wild places in general, and in the half wild

parks and gardens of towns. Even the scenery exists in its most artificial forms, mixed

with spectacles, silliness, and kodaks; its devotees arrayed gorgeously than scarlet 【S9】______

tanagers, frightening the wild game with red umbrellas—even this is encouraging, and

may well be regarded as a hopeful sign of times. 【S10】______

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