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A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” John Muir

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“Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation? And what creature of all that the Lord has taken the pains to make is not essential to the completeness of that unit—the cosmos? The universe would be incomplete without man; but it would also be incomplete wit…”

— John Muir, amazon.com

Tagged: Creation, Cosmos, Knowledge

“The world, we are told, was made especially for man—a presumption not supported by all the facts.”

— John Muir, amazon.com

Tagged: Creation, Manmade

“There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.”

— John Muir, amazon.com

Tagged: Flower, Creation

“On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.…Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they wil…”

— John Muir, amazon.com

Tagged: Death, Children, Woods, Meadows, harmony

“Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation? And what creature of all that the Lord has taken the pains to make is not essential to the completeness of that unit—the cosmos?”

— John Muir, amazon.com

Tagged: Creation, Cosmos, Oneness

“The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.”

— John Muir, amazon.com

Tagged: Morning Light, Nature, Oak, Elm, Walnut

“On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death....Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they w…”

— John Muir, amazon.com

Tagged: Death, Nature, Mountains, Streams, victory

“The world, we are told, was made especially for man—a presumption not supported by all the facts.”

— John Muir, amazon.com

Tagged: World, Man, Facts