“It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since Christ's time-and long before that-God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools.” YearsLongThreeChristWonderfulTreeCenturyFoolThousandDiseaseWesternWoodsSavedForestsFloodThousand YearsTempestDroughtAvalanchesRedwoods Book:John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings
“Making an open stand against all the ungodliness and unrighteousness which overspreads our land as a flood is one of the noblest ways of confessing Christ in the face of His enemies.” WayFacesChristEnemyLandFloodConfessingUnrighteousness Book:The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M. Source: The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.