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The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.

— John Muir Our National Parks (1901)

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There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.

No portion of the world is so barren as not to yield a rich and precious harvest of divine truth.

There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.

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