Title
Trees and Fools.
Files
Kimes Entry Number
327A
Original Date
1-2-1914
Publication
Gazette News [Ashville, N.C.]
Size/Description
Clipping
Location
CStoC
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Trees and Fools." (1914). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes, 1986 (Muir articles 1866-1986). 375.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/375
William and Maymie Kimes Annotation
This famous quotation, beginning, ""Any fool can destroy trees,"" is the last paragraph and climax of Muir's scathing denunciation of forest destroyers in his article ""The American Forests,"" which first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, August, 1897, no. 209.