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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

But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
JOHN MUIR

Blow Darkness Display Impressive Night Storm Waves
I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
JOHN MUIR

Close Friendship Learning Live Measure Separate Soul
Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
JOHN MUIR

Ash Care Dust Grace Ignorance Inspirational Knowledge People Time Work Work Hard
Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
JOHN MUIR

Book Direction Guide Ignorant People Power Travel
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
There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
JOHN MUIR

Fragment Harmony Nature Relative
In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
JOHN MUIR

Beautiful Forest Individual Nature Species Tree Variety
Nothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIR

Hiking Mountain Nature One Liner Trekking Unclean
Going to the mountains is going home.
JOHN MUIR

Hiking Home Mountain One Liner Travel Trekking
In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
JOHN MUIR

Deep Dry FAction Fire Healing Heart Plant
It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
JOHN MUIR

Dead Earn Earthquake Interesting People
A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
JOHN MUIR

Immortal Nature Sick Young
Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
JOHN MUIR

Beautiful Change Creation Destruction Nature
Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
JOHN MUIR

Blind One Liner Opposition Progress
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
But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
JOHN MUIR

Government Nature Travel Wild

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