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Sequoia seeds have flat wings, and glint and glance in their flight like a boy's kite.

~John Muir

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The dispersal of juniper seeds is effected by the plum and cherry plan of hiring birds at the cost of their board, and thus obtaining the use of a pair of extra good wings.

~John Muir

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Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.

~John Muir

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A queer fellow and a jolly fellow is the grasshopper. Up the mountains he comes on excursions, how high I don't know, but at least as far and high as Yosemite tourists.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Environmentalist

Born: April 21st, 1838

Died: December 24th, 1914

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