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John Muir

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

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John Muir is saying that trees, though fixed in one place, seem content and connected to where they grow. He suggests that even though people move around physically, their sense of belonging or experience might not be very different from the rooted life of a tree.

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