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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.

John Muir

The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
JOHN MUIR

Belief Darkness Heart Ignorance Inspirational People Tree
So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
JOHN MUIR

Affair Bound Flood Master Men Tide
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
JOHN MUIR

Care Disease Flood Fools God Save Tree
Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
JOHN MUIR

Glacier Grind Life One Liner Writing
Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Nature One Liner Peace Sun Sunshine Tree
If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
JOHN MUIR

Environment Forest Hear Nature People Preservation Speak Tree Vanish Wood
There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
JOHN MUIR

Mountain Nature Stream
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
JOHN MUIR

Animal Care Clear Earth Forest Universe Wild
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
JOHN MUIR

Nature Travel Walk
It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
JOHN MUIR

Afternoon Course Life Man Mountain Sunset
Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
JOHN MUIR

Hiking Land Mountain Travel
This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
JOHN MUIR

Defend Frost Love Lover Nature Rejoice Reservation Wild
To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
JOHN MUIR

Alaska Country Love Lovers Travel Wonderful World
As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Age Close Enjoyment Failure Nature Peace
A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Immortal Nature Sick Young
I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
JOHN MUIR

Animal Evidence Happen Trace

All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.

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