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Quotation from Our National Parks by John Muir
“I felt degraded by the killing business, farther from heaven, and I made up my mind to try to be at least as fair and charitable as the snakes themselves”
Our National Parks, Chapter VI (Project Gutenberg #60929)
Recalling how he crushed a rattlesnake on the San Joaquin plain thirty years before.
Citation: "I felt degraded by the killing business, farther from heaven, and I made up my mind to try to be at least as fair and charitable as the snakes themselves" — John Muir, Our National Parks, Chapter VI (Project Gutenberg #60929). (id our-national-parks-q4)
Virtues: Charity
Portrait: John Muir 1912, Underwood & Underwood, Public domain.
