It never occurred to me before, but there could have easily been a world with no buses, no horns honking, no red lights, no shopping carts, no gum stick to the bottom of benches downtown. For that matter I guess there also could have been no sun, no trees, and no ocean. None of those things had to exist, I guess. It makes me feel lucky that they do. Jodi Lynn Anderson
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In this quote, John Muir is saying that he feels lucky that there are things like trees and the ocean so he can enjoy them. In a world without the ocean, there would be no beaches to take a dip in and all of those things. In a world without trees, we wouldn’t have wood to burn for heat or paper to use to write on. If nothing else, we wouldn’t have wood to build our homes.

And if nothing else, we would have no way of making electricity because there would be no sun to power our cities with. Life would be quite the different place.

Source: My Diary From The Edge Of The World

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