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  • Government protection should be thrown around every wild grove and forest on the mountains, as it is around every private orchard, and the trees in public parks. To say nothing of their value as fountains of timber, they are worth infinitely more than all the gardens and parks of towns.

    John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.52, Great West Books