882 – “The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it. … Every good thing, great and small, needs defense.”

–John Muir

Quote Number:  561

Source:Muir, John. “The National Parks and Forest Reservations.” Address to the Sierra Club Meeting. November 23, 1895. In Sierra Club Bulletin. Vol 1, No 7. January 1896. The Sierra Club: San Francisco. 1950, Pg 276. Online Here.

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