Not who you're looking for? Others named John Muir: Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914) · Scottish/South African physician, naturalist and cultural hi · Scottish merchant (1828–1903) · Australian judge (1944-2018)
“I did find Calypso — but only once, far in the depths of the very wildest of Canadian dark woods, near those high, cold, moss-covered swamps. … I felt as if I were in the presence of superior beings who loved me and beckoned me to come. I sat down beside them and wept for joy.”
“I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer.”
“[Concerning the Sugar Pine:] The wood is deliciously fragrant, and fine in grain and texture; it is of a rich cream-yellow, as if formed of condensed sunbeams.”
“If I were so time-poor as to have only one day to spend in Yosemite I should start at daybreak, say at three o'clock in midsummer, with a pocketful of any sort of dry breakfast stuff, for Glacier Point, Sentinel Dome, the head of Illilouette Fall, Nevada Fall, the top of Liberty Cap, Vernal Fall and the wild boulder-choked River Cañon.”
“There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.”
“I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”
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