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John Muir

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How many hearts with warm red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes are shining! A multitude of animal people, intimately related to us, but of whose lives we know almost nothing, are as busy about their own affairs as we are about ours.
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Our National Parks (1901), chapter 1: The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West

 
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