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Quotation from The Mountains of California by John Muir
“We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while swinging in the wind, that trees are travelers, in the ordinary sense.”
The Mountains of California, Chapter X (Project Gutenberg #10012)
Reflecting on the wind-storm as he looks back on his hours in the treetop.
Citation: "We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while swinging in the wind, that trees are travelers, in the ordinary sense." — John Muir, The Mountains of California, Chapter X (Project Gutenberg #10012). (id the-mountains-of-california-q4)
Portrait: John Muir 1912, Underwood & Underwood, Public domain.
