When he was eight years old, his family emigrated from Scotland to a farm near Portage, Wisconsin. From the age of eleven till twenty-one, John Muir worked on his father's farm as an un-paid worker. ... They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed-- chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones- In this quote John Muir portrays trees as animals and makes the reader acknowledge that trees and thus nature will soon become instinct. ... Bibliography Bade, William F. ...
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