The destruction of the wild

Toppled giant, Spring Mill, Indiana

The great wilds of our country once held to be boundless and inexhaustible are being rapidly invaded and overrun in every direction, and everything destructible in them is
being destroyed. How far destruction may go is not easy to guess. Every
landscape low and high seems doomed to be trampled and harried.

John Muir

The cause of the fall of the giant tree at Spring Mill is unknown.  The great clearing of wild places without regard to the cost is plain to see in the Midwest.  If you see much of the Midwest or the Southeast in this country you see the great loss
of habitat in this country.