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Terry Gifford, EWDB, page 195
Source: 1860s, My First Summer in the Sierra, 1869
“John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe niel and I”
Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal http://digitalcollections.pacific.edu/cdm/ref/collection/muirjournals/id/115/show/3, which started 1 July 1867 <br class="br">1860s
“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”
I searched for keywords of that text in his books online and on an electronic copy of Muir of the Mountains, and was unable to find it. On rare occasions we find something in Muir's unpublished journals that is new and which can be verified. So I also did a search of the John Muir Papers at the University of the Pacific, and once again came up empty:
Misattributed
“Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.”
John Muir book My First Summer in the Sierra
Terry Gifford, EWDB, page 253
Source: 1860s, My First Summer in the Sierra, 1869
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
John Muir book Our National Parks
The Cruise of the Corwin http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/cruise_of_the_corwin/default.aspx (1917), chapter 3: Siberian Adventures <!-- Terry Gifford, LLO, page 738 --><br>(Echoing William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, iii, 3: "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.") <br class="br">1910s <br class="br">Variant: One touch of nature makes all the world kin. <br class="br">Source: Our National Parks
“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!”
Source: 1890s, The Mountains of California (1894), chapter 4: A Near View of the High Sierra
Source: A Thousand-Mile Walk To the Gulf, 1916, chapter 7: A Sojourn in Cubapage 168, omits the "all". This is a typo: see 1916 edition page 164
Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir
“Nothing truly wild is unclean.”
John Muir book My First Summer in the Sierra
Source: My First Summer in the Sierra
Travels in Alaska http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/travels_in_alaska/ (1915), chapter 1: Puget Sound and British Columbia <br class="br">1910s
“We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.”
Source: " A Wind Storm in the Forests of the Yuba http://books.google.com/books?id=zj2gAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA55", Scribner's Monthly, volume XVII, number 1 (November 1878) pages 55-59 (at page 59); modified slightly and reprinted in The Mountains of California http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/the_mountains_of_california/ (1894), chapter 10: A Wind-Storm in the Forests <!-- Terry Gifford, EWDB, page 401 --> <br class="br">Context: 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. They make many journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true; but our own little comes and goes are only little more than tree-wavings — many of them not so much.
Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings
“One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.”
John Muir book Our National Parks
Source: Our National Parks
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”
John Muir book My First Summer in the Sierra
Terry Gifford, EWDB, page 248 <br class="br">First line of the documentary film " John Muir in the New World http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/john-muir-in-the-new-world/watch-the-full-documentary-film/1823/" (American Masters), produced, directed, and written by Catherine Tatge. <br class="br">Source: 1860s, My First Summer in the Sierra, 1869