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| John Muir
Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease,
avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from the fools who would cut them down for dance hall floors.How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries. 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. The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. |
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