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20: “Old Man Muir . . . like cattle.” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 45.
21: “a barren empty shell.” Ibid., 43.
21: “His inventive genius . . . for the world’s beauty.” Ehrlich, John Muir: Nature’s Visionary, 50.
21: “Wisconsin bird-people.” Ibid., 37.
21: “Too often . . . enslaved.” Ibid.
22: “broken into an imposing array . . . just been discharged.” Muir, Travels in Alaska, 180.
23: “lifting their white skirts . . . and sublime.” Ibid., 181–82.
24: “boyish days . . . holier love.” Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads, “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey.”
25: “One impulse . . . sages can.” Young, Alaska Days with John Muir, 97.
25–26: “Glacier Bay is . . . to my mind certain.” Muir, Travels in Alaska, 194–95.
26: “The climax of . . . unscrupulous.” Gifford, John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings, 643.
26: “the most quarrelsome . . . Columbia River.” Young, Alaska Days with John Muir, 83.
27: “sat on boulders . . . bright neckties.” Muir, Travels in Alaska, 204.
27: “Oh yes . . . Chilcats.” Ibid.
27: “Mr. Young . . . the noble Thlinkits.” Ibid.
27: “as was our custom.” Young, Alaska Days with John Muir, 83.
27: “Who are you? . . . far-reaching.” Muir, Travels in Alaska, 205.
27: “A great preacher-chief . . . a good message.” Young, Alaska Days with John Muir, 85.
28: “living telephone.” Muir, Travels in Alaska, 205.
28: “too warm a reception . . . ut-ha . . . pull.” Young, Alaska Days with John Muir, 84.
Chapter Three
29: “as if . . . at his door.” Young, Alaska Days with John Muir, 86.
29: “without . . . stolen glances.” Muir, Travels in Alaska, 206.
30: “To Chief . . . Seward.” Henry, “Kaalaxch’ and the Great Tyee,” 19.
30: “able to purchase . . . to be strong.” Ibid., 16.
30–31: “The famed naturalist’s . . . Tlingits.” Ibid.
31: “the Indian . . . heart to heart.” Muir, Travels in Alaska, 210.
32: “though the wind . . . it is not a sin to go home.” Ibid., 216.
34: “mere sheepherder . . . ignoramus.” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 133.
35: “Man, man . . . . What a great death that would be.” Young, Alaska Days with John Muir, 117.
35: “the beyond.” Muir, Letter to Jeanne Carr, 8/20/70.
36: “Oh never fear . . . next summer.” Muir, Travels in Alaska, 235.
36: “a blue, jagged ice-wall . . . as yet seen.” Ibid., 235.
36: “there could be . . . about a town.” Muir, Travels in Alaska, 237.
36: “they all behaved well . . . and even friends.” Ibid., 237.
36: “You must be social . . . become impure.” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 171.
37: “I want you to meet my John Muir.” Ibid.
37: “Write as often as you can . . .” Letter from Jeanne Carr to John Muir, May 28, 1870.
37: “a woman whose life . . . repeated discouragements.” Fox, John Muir and His Legacy, 47.
37: “What she brought Muir . . . Father’s love for us.’” Ibid., 46.
38: “free the science from Moses.” McPhee, Annals of the Former World, 98.
38: “Darwin goes too far.” Ibid., 262.
38: “Darwin has left us no escape . . . of our forefathers.” Fox, John Muir and His Legacy, 46.
39: “You are . . . It will do you good.” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 149.
39: “My Men.” Ibid., 151.
39: “O John, John . . . Thanksgiving.” Fox, John Muir and His Legacy, 65–66.
40: “For his lonely fiancée . . . suggested the match.” Ibid., 66.
Chapter Four
41: “When can you . . . let us be off.” Young, Alaska Days with John Muir, 126.
42: “the noblest old Roman of them all.” Muir, Travels in Alaska, 248.
42: “the darkest . . . were responsible.” Young, Alaska Days with John Muir, 129.
42: “never under any . . . uttered anywhere.” Muir, Travels in Alaska, 248.
42: “the work before them . . . island after island . . .” Ibid., 253.
45: “lords and possessors of nature.” Safina, The View from Lazy Point, 35.
45: “without any injustice . . .” Safina, The View from Lazy Point, 35.
45: “the world . . . the world.” Ibid.
46: “feeling for the other.” Ibid., 40.
46: “what is” . . . “what ought to be.” Ibid.
46: “Man is born . . . in chains.” Ibid.
46: “There is grandeur . . . evolved.” Ibid., 41.
48: “against the protest . . . and nothing to hunt.” Young, Alaska Days with John Muir, 138.
48: “What a plucky . . . and laugh.” Ibid., 146.
48: “[R]ight proud was I . . . grand larcenies.” Ibid., 147.
48: “unmixed pleasure” Ibid.
48: “unfussy as a tree.” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 217.
50: “At the entrance . . . with ours.” Bohn, Glacier Bay: The Land and the Silence, 27.
50: “Small and worthless . . . toy-dogs.” Fox, John Muir and His Legacy, 68.
50–51: “showed neither caution nor curiosity . . . skipping muscle.” Ibid., 69.
51: “At such times . . . knowledge.” Ibid.
51: “Hush your fears . . . to save them.” Muir, Stickeen: The Story of a Dog, 57.
Chapter Five
55: “In the ten years . . . his lifetime.” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 231.
55: “Through want of . . . like serfs.” Thoreau, Walden, 187.
58: “Ah! My friend . . . have you not?” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 238.
58: “To dine . . . sunbeams.” Muir, letter to His Sister Sarah, 1873.
58: “Pray find a new genus . . . spicy wild perfume.” Letter from Asa Gray to John Muir, January 4, 1872.
59: “This is a good place . . . not my home.” Fox, John Muir and His Legacy, 74.
59: “I am degenerating into . . . making money.” Young, Alaska Days with John Muir, 204.
59: “Condemned to penal . . . And for money.” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 238.
59: “Keep not standing . . . briskly roam.” Dudley, Poetry and Philosophy of Goethe, 37.
59–60: “He flashed and darted . . . Saved!’” Fox, John Muir and His Legacy, 69–70.
60: “the many great things . . . the moon . . .” Young, Alaska Days with John Muir, 179–80.
60: “I wish you to pray . . . make the ice mountain stop.” Ibid., 180.
61: “If God . . . to invent him.” Voltaire, Letter to the Anonymous Author of The Three Impostors, 1768.
61–63: “Everything busy . . . are not shut out.’” Fox, John Muir and His Legacy, 80.
64: “The Alaska book . . . our children.” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 244.
64: “Johnson, Johnson . . . on occasion.” Fox, John Muir and His Legacy, 87.
65: “Every cell . . . of the harmony.” Ibid., 82.
65: “conceit and lofty importance.” Ibid., 85.
66: “I fancy I could . . . fresh enthusiasm . . .” Ibid., 98.
66: “Tinkering the Yosemite waterworks . . . the Domes.” Ibid.
66: “tears in his voice.” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 245.
67: “whether they was made, or only just happened.” Marx, The Machine in the Garden, 335.
67: “If you go . . . with my life.” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 246.
67: “an interesting old salt . . . unbeliever.” Muir, Trave
ls in Alaska, 330–31.
68: “delightful even in the dullest weather.” Ibid., 331.
68: “in the flesh.” Ibid., 334.
68: “there are now . . . ten cents each.” Ibid., 336.
68: “to see . . . San Francisco time.” Ibid.
Chapter Six
71: “The world is . . . his hand.” Agassiz, Geological Sketches, 11.
72: “Precisely because he . . . professional scientist.” Gifford, Reconnecting with John Muir: Essays in Post-Pastoral Practice, 42.
73: “They had come also . . . Camp Muir.” Bohn, Glacier Bay: The Land and the Silence, 62.
73: “I am delighted . . . village.” Muir, Travels in Alaska, 345.
74: “abounding in beginning lessons on landscape making.” Dennis C. Williams, God’s Wilds: John Muir’s Vision of Nature, 80.
74: “What a show . . . poor hut.” Bohn, Glacier Bay: The Land and the Silence, 62.
74–76: “To Mrs. Muir . . . Ever thine, J.M.” Ibid., 62–64.
76: “made as light as possible.” Muir, Travels in Alaska, 355.
76: “hideous and desolate wilderness.” Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, 23–24.
76: “a tradition of repugnance.” Ibid., 24.
77: “Anticipations of a . . . wild country.” Ibid., 25–26.
77: “There is a pleasure . . . but nature more.” Ibid., 50.
77: “discovered the literary . . . of these novels . . .” Ibid., 76.
77–78: “holiness of . . . the woods!’” Ibid.
78: “Democratic nations . . . useful.” Tocqueville, Democracy in America, vol. 2, 531.
78: “In wildness . . . the world.” Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, 84.
78: “For one . . . axe or rifle.” Ibid., 92.
79: “be . . . the Lewis and Clark . . . higher latitudes.” Ibid., 89.
79: “storm-bent . . . rolled and sifted.” Muir, Travels in Alaska, 373.
79: “Nothing could be more striking . . . flower-enameled mosses.” Ibid., 356.
79: “they had a mind . . . frontal attack.” Ibid., 358–59.
80: “How often and by . . . gardens.” Ibid., 360.
81: “It has been . . . soft evening light.” Ibid., 362.
81: “Just as I got up . . . not yet!’” Ibid., 363.
81: “soft, tender light . . . icy scenery.” Ibid., 364–65.
81: “a glorious and instructive day . . . nothing but good.” Ibid., 366.
81: “Anything seems easy . . . jump crevasses . . .” Ibid., 370.
82: “my eyes . . . scarce see.” Ibid., 370.
82: “Nearly blind . . . for work.” Ibid., 370–71.
82: “sloppy heap.” Ibid., 374.
82: “a miserable job . . . experiences.” Ibid., 374–75.
82: “I had a good rest . . . and hungry I was.” Ibid., 376.
82–83: “Prof. Muir . . . good deal of smoke.” Bohn, Glacier Bay: The Land and the Silence, 64.
83: “And at odd moments . . . appetite.” Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, 319.
84: “[I]t was the first roped . . . for forty-one years.” Ibid., 66.
84: “crystalline prairies.” Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, 316.
84: “the heat and smoke of politics.” Ibid.
84: “. . . the good Father . . . storms.” Ibid., 318.
84: “Many good Californians . . . . manifold destroyers.” Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, 320.
85: “The preservation . . . to the people.” Ibid.
Chapter Seven
87: “Truth is stranger . . . Truth isn’t.” Twain, Following the Equator; Maxims.
87: “a farce . . . and sincerity.” Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, 305.
87: “not made for any useful . . . regret to the Creator.” Twain, Autobiography of Mark Twain, vol. I, 312.
88: “It’s one of . . . and live.” Twain, Mark Twain’s Own Autobiography, 26.
88: “a kind of ecstatic holy man.” Burns, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.
88–89: “My love . . . emotion of the past.” Holmes, The Young John Muir, 102.
89: “[W]e valued . . . of the populace.” Emerson, The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 600.
89–90: “picked out . . . without graduating.” Holmes, The Young John Muir, 103.
90: “In the devastated South . . . lost cause.” Von Drehle, TIME Magazine, 4/18/2011, 40–42.
91: “to towns . . . from the frontier.” Census from the Superintendent of the Census 1890, www.census.gov.
91: “get by/get rich . . . Dishonestly if we can . . . if we must.” Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Lie of John Muir, 305.
92: “the invisible hand of the market.” Harrison, Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 72, num. 1, Jan. 2011.
92: “gobble, gobble school of economics.” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 102.
92: “Money is God . . . mighty and supreme.” Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, 305–6.
92: “Muir wanted to spend the remainder . . .” Ibid., 306.
93: “I had never seen . . . of a lifetime.” Fox, John Muir and His Legacy, 107.
93: “this formal, legal . . . my line.” Ibid.
94: “evaporating our coal mines into the air.” McKibben, The End of Nature, 9.
94: “It is now half-past nine . . . continue to rain.” Reid, Field Journal, August 4, 1892.
95: “irreconcilable . . . our visits.” Bohn, Glacier Bay: The Land and the Silence, 69.
95: “For the years . . . in that year (1890).” Ibid., 69.
96: “badly smashed . . . to the glacier’s surface . . .” Catton, Land Reborn, 38.
97: “[T]he Pacific Coast . . . with Muir Glacier.” Ibid., 39.
97: “constantly regaled . . . . with icebergs . . .” Bohn, Glacier Bay: The Land and the Silence, 57.
97: “that large . . . confining fiords.” Catton, Land Reborn, 38.
97–104: “The crashes of falling ice . . . and mystery.” Bohn, Glacier Bay: The Land and the Silence, 57.
104: “descriptions of it . . . to what followed.” Ibid.
105: “Dear Louie . . . with excitement . . .” John Muir letter to Louie, 5/29/1893.
Chapter Eight
107: “We are great, and rapidly . . . growing!” Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History,” 1.
108: “So long as . . . benefits.” Ibid., 6.
108: “that practical, inventive turn of mind . . . energy . . .?” Ibid., 9.
108: “I had no idea . . . have written.” Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, 334.
109: “I’d rather sit . . . on a velvet cushion.” Thoreau, Walden, 47.
110: “The waves made . . . a boy again . . .” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 263.
110: “maple, yew, pine . . . glacial gospel.” Ibid., 264.
110: “sort of national . . . heart to enjoy.” Wordsworth, A Guide through the Lakes in the North of England, 88.
111: “by some great protecting policy . . . nature’s beauty.” Allin, The Politics of Wilderness Preservation, 14.
111: “receive a thousand-fold . . . shall see God.” Fox, John Muir and His Legacy, 19.
111: “The Tao that can be told . . . not the eternal name.” Lyon, “John Muir, the Physiology of the Brain, and the ‘Wilderness Experience,’” 27.
111: “Even the dogs . . . bon chien.’” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 265.
111: “hemmed in by . . . hundreds . . . exquisite taste.” Ibid.
112: “a synthetic wilderness . . . place behind.” Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, 337.
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br /> 112: “A grand church . . . to write about.” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 265.
112: “snowflowers.” Muir, The Mountains of California, 16.
112: “a current of ice derived from snow.” Muir, “Living Glaciers of California,” 775.
113: “The glaciers of Switzerland . . . diminishing . . .” Muir, The Mountains of California, 20.
113: “met with immediate . . . sore problem.” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 268.
114: “He will not listen . . . every thing.” Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, 298.
114: “broad Scotch . . . dear wanderer.” Ibid., 300.
114: “Oh, John . . . terribly ill!” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 269.
115: “There is but one man . . . John Muir.” Ibid., 273.
115: “hoofed locusts . . . going on.” Ibid., 271.
115: “in his late fifties . . . too much time.” Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, 352.
116: “[T]he lumber, stock . . . and impractical dreamers.” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 272.
116: “The American Forests . . . the globe.” Ehrlich, John Muir: Nature’s Visionary, 190.
116: “turned to elegy . . . essay.” Ibid.
116: “Any fool can . . . bole backbones.” Ibid.
116: “Those western corporations . . . fight must go on!” Letter from John Muir to R. U. Johnson, 6/18/1897, in Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 273.
117: “a wild, discouraging mess.” Ibid., 275.
117: “Are you correctly quoted . . . of harm.” Ibid., 275–76.
118: “A man is rich . . . alone.” Thoreau, Walden, 75–76.
118: “Much is said . . . background.” Fox, John Muir and His Legacy, 113.
118: “were concealing their . . . protection.” Ibid.
119: “make their lives . . . by the woods.” Letter from John Muir to Theodore P. Lukens, 4/18/1897.
119: “Gentlemen . . . never have again.” Limerick, Something in the Soil, 296.
120: “the authentic voice . . . commercial propaganda.” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 277.
120: “Sabbath for the Land.” Lentfer and Servid, Arctic Refuge: Circle of Testimony, 101.
121: “Think of the beautiful woods . . . destruction.” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 278–79.
121: “New Colossus of Roads.” Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, 409.
