“Plants, animals, and stars are all kept in place, bridled along appointed ways, with one another, and through the midst of one another — killing and being killed, eating and being eaten, in harmonious proportions and quantities.”

—  John Muir

&quot; Wild Wool http://books.google.com/books?id=LcIRAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=P361&quot;, Overland Monthly, volume 14, number 4 (April 1875) pages 361-366 (at page 364); reprinted in Steep Trails (1918), chapter 1 <br class="br">1870s

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