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The peculiar charm and fascination 

 that trees exert over many people I 

 had always felt from childhood, but 

 it was that great nature-lover, John 

 Muir, who first showed me how and 

 where to learn their language. Few 

 trees, however, ever held for me such 

 an attraction as did a gigantic and 



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