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The juice of Apples likewise, as of pippins, and pearemaines, is of very good use in Melancholicke diseases, helping to procure mirth, and to expell heavinesse.

—John Parkinson, Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris, 1629

To the spirit bowed with affliction, or harrowed with cares, a pilgrimage to these shadowy shrines affords most soothing consolation. Behold the evergreen summits of trees that have withstood the storms of more than three thousand years! … While lost in wonder and admiration, the turmoil of earthly strife seems to vanish.

—Edward Vischer, The Mammoth Tree Grove, Calaveras County, California, 1862

Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.

—John Babsone Lane Soule, 1851 and Horace Greeley, 1865