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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
Approximate author period: c. 1876 AD · industrial
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- John Muir
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- Approximate author period: c. 1876 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1838 to 1914; Wikidata Q379580, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q379580 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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