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Quote by John Muir
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring st

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. – John Muir

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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it. – John Muir

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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. – John Muir

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Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you. – John Muir

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I think that I shall never see
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Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
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No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets. – Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs, 1887

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How dear the woods are! You beautiful trees! I love every one of you as a friend. – Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea, 1909

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