American - Environmentalist | April 21, 1838 - December 24, 1914
I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.
John Muir
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How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.
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In most mills, only the best portions of the best trees are used, while the ruins are left on the ground to feed great fires which kill much of what is left of the less desirable timber, together with the seedlings on which the permanence of the forest depends.
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Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the 'Dust and Ashes Act,' any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.
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I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.
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