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William O. Douglas envisioned the capital’s back door as a wilderness where people could commune with God and nature, hike 15 or 20 miles on a Sunday afternoon, sleep on high dry ground in the quiet of a forest, sit with only water lapping at their feet, walk the 185 miles to Cumberland, and come to know muskrats, fox, wind in thickets, islands and promontories in fog, the first flower of spring, a blade of grass, and the whistling wings of ducks.
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Washington, District of Columbia · United States
