Recipient
Wolfe, Linnie Marsh
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•16- with his long and arduous fight which was finally instrumental in having many forest reserves created, set apart, and protected from destruction* "Any fool can destroy trees," he said* "They cannot rua away. It took more than three thousand years to iaake some of these trees in these Western woods. Through all the wonderful eventful centuries since Christ's time,, and long before that, Cod has cared for these trees* saved them from drouth, disease, avalanche, and a thousand straining leveling tempests and floods* But He cannot save them from fools. Only Uncle Sam cab do that." John Muir was nipt only a very clever inventor, and a famous naturalist and geologist, but he was a charming writer, He had the gift of tongues. He was a thin, plain, modest, retiring, unassuming man, with gentle voice and maaaer, fine gray eyes, and curling brown hair and beard, which later turned gray. To look at him you :'M
Location
Portland, Oregon
Circa Date
[1941-1945]
Page Number
16
Resource Identifier
MSS048 Vb.7
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Owning Institution
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Keywords
John Muir, biography, reminiscence, colleagues, contemporaries, archives, special collections, University of the Pacific, California, Holt-Atherton Special Collections, history, naturalist
