If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. – Emma Goldman
The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner. – John Muir, “The American Forests,” August 1897