"To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness."

This quotation is widely popping up around the internet and even in some "trail quote" books, and is attributed to John Muir. Nonetheless, the purported quote does not show upin any of Muir's published writings, nor in the John Muir Papers at the University of the Pacific. As read, it sounds more like a description "about" Muir's views of solitude, not an actual quote, likely from one of the numerous Muir biographies or commentaries.

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