{"product_id":"trailmaker-strode-curious-mind-sweatshirt","title":"Leave a Trail — Muriel Strode Quote Sweatshirt","description":"\u003cp\u003eMuriel Strode published \u003cem\u003eWind-Wafted Wild Flowers\u003c\/em\u003e in 1903 — poetry built around the idea that the individual must make the way, not follow it. The line that opens this sweatshirt became one of the most widely circulated quotes of the last century. Almost no one knows her name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMuriel Strode\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuriel Strode wrote this in 1903, in a poem called \u003cem\u003eWind-Wafted Wild Flowers\u003c\/em\u003e. For over a century, the words traveled without her name — attributed to Emerson, to Thoreau, to anyone but her. Borrowed by calendars and motivational posters and LinkedIn bios, endlessly recycled, never credited. This sweatshirt gives her name back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you've ever:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMade a decision that nobody around you understood — and been right about it three years later\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLooked at the obvious route and taken the other one, not out of stubbornness but out of certainty\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFinished something nobody had a blueprint for, because you wrote the blueprint while doing it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe quote is on the back, and it builds the way the sentence builds. The opening lines arrive quietly. Two gold rules divide the quote into three movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy the time you reach the final clause — AND I WILL LEAVE A TRAIL. — it's large, it's certain, and it's the last thing anyone sees when you walk away. That's the only direction the sentence goes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Sweatshirt\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQuote printed on the back. Quoteiac logo on the left sleeve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\nGarment-dyed crewneck — 9.5 oz heavyweight fleece, piece-dyed after construction for that slightly faded, lived-in look that gets better with every wash\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\nRelaxed fit — true to size; size up if between sizes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMachine wash cold, tumble dry low\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvailable in Black\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuoteiac logo on left sleeve\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It's For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe one who stopped asking for directions. Who knows the path other people cleared leads to the places other people wanted to go. Who moves first and doesn't need anyone to see it coming — only where they've been.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWear the trail.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eMuriel Strode, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1875–1964, Illinois\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoet, essayist, and early advocate for progressive education — she spent decades teaching and writing in Chicago\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished \u003cem\u003eWind-Wafted Wild Flowers\u003c\/em\u003e in 1903, the collection that contains this poem. Largely forgotten within a generation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHer words became famous. Her name didn't — until the internet started tracing misattributed quotes back to their sources. She was Emerson for a hundred years. 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