"Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed,—chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. Few that fell trees plant them; nor would planting avail much towards getting back anything like the noble primeval forests. During a man's life only saplings can be grown, in the place of the old trees—tens of centuries old—that have been destroyed."
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John Muir in: Raymond Hyser, J. Arndt Voices of the American Past: Documents in U.S. History, Volume 2, Cengage Learning, 4 June 2007, p. 349.
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