All the wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God’s light.

In this line Muir frames wilderness not as inert scenery but as an active moral and spiritual agent. The “tricks and plans” suggest a playful, almost pedagogical nature that lures human attention away from distraction and self-absorption toward clarity, humility, and reverence. “God’s light” reflects Muir’s characteristic blend of natural observation with religious (often broadly theistic) language: wild places become a medium of revelation. The sentence also implies that estrangement from the divine is not nature’s default; rather, the wild continually “drives and draws” us back toward insight—if we are willing to be present and receptive.