Meditations of John Muir by Chris Highland

Author:Chris Highland
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: eBook ISBN: 9780899974965
Publisher: Wilderness Press
Published: 2001-06-15T16:00:00+00:00

“Whoever knows me can never fall—For I am love,

which the vast expanse of evil can never still.”

~Hildegard of Bingen

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They Would Live Forever

The Juniper or Red Cedar is preeminently a rock tree, occupying the baldest domes and pavements in the upper silver fir and alpine zones, at a height of from 7000 to 9500 feet. Some trees are mere storm-beaten stumps about as broad as long, decorated with a few leafy sprays, reminding one of the crumbling towers of old castles scantily draped with ivy…. Most of the trees eight or ten feet thick, standing on pavements, are more than twenty centuries old rather than less. Barring accidents, for all I can see they would live forever; even when overthrown by avalanches, they refuse to lie at rest, lean stubbornly on their big branches as if anxious to rise, and while a single root holds to the rock, put forth fresh leaves with a grim, never-say-die expression.

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