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Martinez, Feb. 6, 1908 in margin: illegible Dear Mr Kent: Seeing my name in the tender deed of the Tamalpais Sequoias
was a surprise of the pleasantest kind. This is the best tree-lover's monument that could possibly be found in all the forests
of the world. You have done me great honor, I am proud of it. Schools here there have planted Muir trees in their playgrounds,
long ago Asa Gray named several plants for me; the most interesting of which is a sturdy frost-enduring daisy that I discovered
on the shore of the Arctic Ocean near Icy Cape; a Sierra peak also one of the Alaska glaciers bears my name, but these aboriginal
woods, barring human action, will outlast them all, even the mountain glacier. Compared with Sequoia glaciers are young fleeting
things, since the first Sequoia forests lifted their