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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

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

Friendship Loneliness Sense Solitude
Nothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIR

Hiking Mountain Nature One Liner Trekking Unclean
Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
JOHN MUIR

Beautiful Forest Maintain Marvelous Nature Stress
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
What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
JOHN MUIR

Earth Fresh Leaf Psalm Sing Smell Storm Sweet Voice Wash
Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
JOHN MUIR

DAngry Home Nature Place Travel World
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
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
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
As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
JOHN MUIR

Age Close Enjoyment Failure Nature Peace
Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
JOHN MUIR

Gold Hide Nature One Liner Wild
In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
JOHN MUIR

Church Mountain Nature Religion Time Turn
The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
JOHN MUIR

Body Flow Past Peace River Sing Substance Vibrate
We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
JOHN MUIR

Information Knowledge One Liner Reach
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

Holiday Nature Wander Wild World
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
JOHN MUIR

Bee Book Damage Flower Nature Sweet

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.

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