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“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 extensive ones, it is true; but our own little journeys, away and back again, are only little more than tree-wavings - many of them not so much.”

Men Way Life Littles Together Nature Tree Journey Humility Wind Ordinary Storm Traveler Stewardship Back Again Milky Way

Book:John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California

Source: John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California

“Life was a storm to wander through.”

Life Storm Wander

Author:Stephen Vincent Benet

“Our lives are waves that come up out of the ocean of eternity, break upon the beach of earth, and lapse back to the ocean of eternity. Some are sunlit, some run in storm and rain; one is a quiet ripple, another is a thunderous breaker; and once in many centuries comes a great tidal wave that sweeps over a continent; but all go back to the sea and lie equally level there.”

Life Running Earth Lying Levels Break Our Lives Sea Century Quiet Ocean Rain Eternity Wave Come Up Storm Beach Continents Ripple Lapses Tidal Waves

Author:Austin O'Malley

“Life is a dream in the night, a fear among fears, A naked runner lost in a storm of spears.”

Life Dream Life Is Night Lost Storm Naked Runners Spears Life Is A Dream

Book:Arthur Symons: Selected Writings

Source: Arthur Symons: Selected Writings

“He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.”

Love Life Dream Literature Freedom Ambition Storm

Book:Goethe's Faust: An abridged version

Source: Goethe's Faust: An abridged version

“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”

“Like the ocean that remains calm in its depths even when waves rage over its surface, and like the sun that continues shining on high even during storms, we can at each moment create value and develop our state of life, enjoying our existence to the fullest in times of both suffering and joy.”

Life States Moments Joy Suffering Values Enjoy Existence Sun Ocean Remains Shining Depth Calm Wave Storm Surface Rage Over It Enjoy Life

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“Man's feeble race what ills await! Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate!”

Men Life Pain Race Fate Sorrow Disease Train Storm Labour Refuge Weeping Racks

Book:The works of Thomas Gray (ed. by J. Mitford).

Source: The works of Thomas Gray (ed. by J. Mitford).

“Observe the life like a wise tree by the side of a calm lake! Do not move; just sit and observe! Observe the Sun, observe the storms; observe the wisdom, observe the stupidities!”

Life Moving Sides Sun Wise Tree Calm Stupidity Storm Lakes

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Stay calm inside! You will then see that outside storms of life, even the most terrible ones, will turn into soft winds.”

Life Turns Wind Terrible Calm Storm Storms Of Life Stay Calm

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In the midst of the storm, your life boat appears. A psalm, a hymn, a word... calming the fiercest winds of the soul.”

Life Soul Religion Wind Storm Boat Midst Hymns Calming Psalms

Author:Roderick L. Evans

“We are like vessels tossed on the bosom of the deep; our passions are the winds that sweep us impetuously forward; each pleasure is a rock; the whole life is a wide ocean. Reason is the pilot to guide us, but often allows itself to be led astray by the storms of pride.”

Life Reason Whole Life Is Passion Pleasure Rocks Wind Pride Ocean Storm Wide Guides Whole Life Pilots Vessel Bosoms

Author:Pietro Metastasio

“Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.”

Life Humans Faces Human Nature Dignity Storm Storms Of Life

Book:The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts