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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.

John Muir

This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Death Die Glory Mountain Reality Time
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
JOHN MUIR

Care Disease Flood Fools God Save Tree
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
A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
JOHN MUIR

Immortal Nature Sick Young
So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
JOHN MUIR

Affair Bound Flood Master Men Tide
As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Age Close Enjoyment Failure Nature Peace
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
JOHN MUIR

Greet Mountain One Liner Sun Trekking
I never saw a discontented tree.
JOHN MUIR

Content Inspirational One Liner Tree
I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
JOHN MUIR

Light Love Moon Run Stride Strong Sun
There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
JOHN MUIR

Fragment Harmony Nature Relative
At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
JOHN MUIR

Bless Conscious Divine Light Mountain Religion Touch Wait Worship
Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
JOHN MUIR

Mountain Prize Reward Travel World
Going to the woods is going home.
JOHN MUIR

Home Nature One Liner Peace
I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIR

Care Live Love Nature Peace People Travel
Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
JOHN MUIR

Ash Care Dust Grace Ignorance Inspirational Knowledge People Time Work Work Hard
Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
JOHN MUIR

Enthusiasm Joy Nature One Liner Spring Work

We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.

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