I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they l…

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I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. ✨ John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). The Wilderness World of John Muir, p.315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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