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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.

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Nationality: American

Type: Environmentalist

Born: April 21st, 1838

Died: December 24th, 1914

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