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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

John Muir

Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
JOHN MUIR

Listen Men Mountain Society Speak Wisdom Wise
In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
JOHN MUIR

Nature One Liner Receive Seek Travel Walk
We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
JOHN MUIR

Life Men One Liner Together Travel Tree
I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
JOHN MUIR

Animal Evidence Happen Trace
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
JOHN MUIR

Bee Book Damage Flower Nature Sweet
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
JOHN MUIR

Nature Travel Walk
Learn to live like the wild animals
JOHN MUIR

Animal Learning Live One Liner Travel Wild
One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
JOHN MUIR

Book Exposure Hiking Mountain Travel Trekking
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
JOHN MUIR

Finding Hitch Pick Try Universe
But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
JOHN MUIR

Government Nature Travel Wild
The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
JOHN MUIR

Body Flow Past Peace River Sing Substance Vibrate
The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
JOHN MUIR

Especially FAction Man Presumption Support Universe World
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
JOHN MUIR

Animal Care Clear Earth Forest Universe Wild
Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
JOHN MUIR

Delicious Lungs Nature Tongue
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
In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
JOHN MUIR

Beautiful Forest Individual Nature Species Tree Variety

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