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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

The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
JOHN MUIR

Aware Civilization Healing Wound
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
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
The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
JOHN MUIR

Friendship Loneliness Sense Solitude
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
JOHN MUIR

Finding Forest Lost Mind Nature Soul Travel Trekking
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
Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
JOHN MUIR

Blossom Change Darkness Flower Frozen Rain Rainbow Sky Snow
Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
JOHN MUIR

Hiking Land Mountain Travel
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
JOHN MUIR

Attachment Finding Inspirational Nature World
Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
JOHN MUIR

Mountain Prize Reward Travel World
One must labor for beauty as for bread.
JOHN MUIR

Beautiful Bread Labor Life One Liner
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
Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
JOHN MUIR

Beautiful Beneath Beyond Forever Nature
The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
JOHN MUIR

Calm Fall Forest Light Morning Nature Ripen
Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
JOHN MUIR

Angel Guardian Guide Inspirational People Sheep Storm
How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
JOHN MUIR

Blind Creature Narrow Selfish Sympathy

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.

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