by Heacox, Kim
Chapter Nine
125: “the most velvety . . . ever saw.” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 280.
125: “To him I owe . . . of my life.” Gifford, John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings, 861.
126: “Only after Merriam . . . national figure.” Goetzmann and Sloan, Looking Far North, 10–11.
126: “Ornithologist and Author . . . Author and Student of Glaciers.” Litwin, The Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced, 260.
127: “Cold Storage Muir . . . playground . . . on the subject.” Lord, Green Alaska, 15–17.
127: “George W. Roller.” Goetzmann and Sloan, Looking Far North, 33.
127: “floating university.” Lord, Green Alaska, xvi.
128: “All along . . . a place of promise.” Ibid., xvi–xvii.
128: “Big Four . . . Little Two . . . Admiral.” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 281.
129: “. . . you naughty bad boy . . . anymore.” Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, 303.
129: “Kill as few . . . Nature’s harmony.” Ibid., 363.
130: “Whatever they are today . . . ought to do.” Grinnell, Alaska 1899: Essays from the Harriman Expedition, 154.
130–31: “Well, are you . . . if I do.” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 281.
131: “You ought to . . . on the Hudson.” Ibid.
131: “He is as modest . . . gifted.” Carr and Muir, Kindred and Related Spirits, 166.
131: “an age of . . . of success.” Goetzmann and Sloan, Looking Far North, xi–xii.
131: “A fearful smell . . . themselves canned.” Lord, Green Alaska, 77.
131: “Seaweed Saunders.” Goetzmann and Sloan, Looking Far North, 45.
132: “dirty, miserable.” Ibid., 46.
133: “bicycle suits.” Ibid., 58.
133: “a nest of ants . . . by a stick.” Ibid., 56.
133: “ribs of the earth.” Ibid., 61.
134: “Alaska’s grandeur . . . will be enormous . . . . finest first.” Brinkley, The Quiet World, 47.
134: “new kind of Niagara.” Catton, Land Reborn, 37.
135: “Howling Valley.” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 282.
138: “all the howling.” Ibid.
138: “The comforts of . . . his control.” Lord, Green Alaska, 136–37.
138: “No bears, no bears . . . servants done?” Ibid., 52.
139: “wild to get on . . . from the steamer.” Goetzmann and Sloan, Looking Far North, 85.
139: “every little fish pond.” Ibid., 110.
142: “mother and child.” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 284.
143: “the most barren and . . . its size.” Goetzmann & Sloan, Looking Far North, 137.
143: “I don’t . . . scenery.” Lord, Green Alaska, 151.
143–44: “I never cared . . . and happier.” Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, 362.
144: “did not accept . . . conservation movement.” Ibid., 362–63.
144: “an entire success.” Goetzmann and Sloan, Looking Far North, 171.
145: “Gilbert’s work . . . and others.” Ibid., 206.
Chapter Ten
147: “an assault on . . . order.” Morris, Theodore Rex, 4.
147: “If it had . . . him first.” Ibid.
147: “practicing fearlessness.” Ibid., 6.
147: “Experiences had . . . fellows.” Ibid.
148: “By then he was producing . . .” Morris, Theodore Rex, 6.
148: “freshness, spontaneity . . . from the false.” Brinkley, The Wilderness Warrior, 184–85.
148–49: “Though chiefly . . . with him.” Ibid., 186.
149: “This cannot last . . . of the victims.” Ibid., 187.
150: “an extremely dangerous man.” Morris, Theodore Rex, 227.
150–51: “Every man . . . of the laws.” Ibid., 221.
151: “I don’t know . . . who come after you.” Ibid., 225–26.
151: “air of the ridiculous.” Ibid., 227.
151: “There is nothing . . . Euphrates.” Ibid.
151: “were the rightful . . . American people.” Brinkley, The Wilderness Warrior, 535.
152: “I do not want . . . with you.” Ibid., 543.
152: “It is only . . . get lost.” Fox, John Muir and His Legacy, 125.
152: “Now . . . out of school.” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 181.
153: “ideal training . . . murder business.” Brinkley, The Wilderness Warrior, 544.
153: “Mr. Roosevelt . . . you’re right.” Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, 139.
153: “Muir had an . . . planet in peril.” Brinkley, The Wilderness Warrior, 337.
154: “Disturbing as . . . society and nature.” Stoll, The Great Delusion, 5.
155: “This is . . . anything.” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 292.
155: “We slept . . . I wanted.” Ibid., 293.
155: “John Muir talked . . . without a tent.” Fox, John Muir and His Legacy, 126.
156: “Goodbye, John . . . my life!” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 293.
156: “I never before . . . love with him.” Fox, John Muir and His Legacy, 126.
156: “I stuffed him . . . thieves.” Brinkley, The Wilderness Warrior, 543.
156: “We are not . . . through the ages.” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 294.
158: “huge yellow . . . paintings.” Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, 378.
158: “I’m still alive . . . and all.” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 296.
158: “the tallest . . . have seen.” Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, 379.
158: “indomitable birch.” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 296.
158: “never seemed to think . . . bother him.” Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, 380.
159: “I feel alive . . . be free . . .” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 297.
159: “There are . . . before I die.” Ibid.
159: “had once befriended . . . with the public.” Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, 346.
160: “Would you . . . children?” Ibid., 383.
163: “Going around . . . been different.” Ibid., 385–86.
164: “a noble . . . earthquake.” Muir, The Yosemite, 78.
165: “She had learned . . . mountain joy.” Ehrlich, John Muir: Nature’s Visionary, 204.
165: “get out . . . woman can.” Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, 393.
Chapter Eleven
169: “Not in history . . . are all gone.” London in Collier’s magazine, 5/5/1906.
170: “The glory . . . out of my ears . . .” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 309.
170: “. . . after making about . . . even Yosemite.” Ibid.
170: “Finding her . . . company.” Ibid., 309–10.
171: “O dear . . . up a canon.” John Muir letter to daughters Helen and Wanda, 1/15/1906.
171: “I hope sincerely . . . in my power.” Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, 400.
171: “They all . . . sound substantial irrefragable ignorance.” John Muir letter to T. Roosevelt, 9/9/1907.
171: “nine tenths or more.” John Muir letter to T. Roosevelt, 9/9/1907.
171–72: “and I have been . . . silver firs.” Fox, John Muir and His Legacy, 140.
172: “promises to be the worst ever.” Ibid.
172: “mischief-makers and robbers of every degree.” Ibid., 141.
172: “John Muir loves the Sierras . . . quibbling.” Ibid.
173: “made an ironic . . . work.” Ibid., 139.
173: “In all forestry . . . Gifford Pinchot.” Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, 163.
175: “began his career . . . of God superior . . .” Ibid., 316.
175: “Never mind, dear Colby . . . to ourselves.” Ibid., 314.
175: “A dam! . . . damning himself.” Ibid., 323.
175: “attacks more violent than before.” Ibid., 325.
176: “It is all . . . than the materialist.” New York Times, 12/5/1909.
176: “Pinchot spoke for . . . public opinion.” Fox, John Muir and His Legacy, 121.
176: “there has been . . . magazine articles.” Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, 168.
176: “hoggish and mushy esthetes.” Ibid., 169.
176: “short-haired women and long-haired men.” Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, 433.
177: “I’ve . . . bondage . . .” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 319.
179: “I wonder . . . falling.” Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, 440.
179: “vanish . . . other America.” Ibid., 441.
179: “like the skin of an elephant.” Ibid., 445.
180: “hot continents.” Ibid., 446.
180: “the great thundering crystal world.” Muir, Travels in Alaska, 353.
181: “No one of substantial fortune . . . to the other side.” Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, 452.
181: “Grand scenery . . . some of it.” Fox, John Muir and His Legacy, 144.
181: “God invented . . . immense.” Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, 179.
181: “It is hard to bear.” John Muir letter to Vernon Kellogg, 12/27/1913.
181: “desolation work.” Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, 460.
182: “cult of the self.” Hedges, Death of the Liberal Class, 7.
182: “California and Alaska . . . of things . . .” Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, 458.
182: “no trace of pessimism . . . fatigue.” Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness, 345.
185: “robbery.” Goetzmann and Sloan, Looking Far North, 165.
185: “The long . . . surely come.” John Muir New Year’s letter to R. U. Johnson, 1/1/1914.
186: “The most . . . public protest . . .” Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, 181.
Chapter Twelve
189: “forget everything . . . over again.” Oreskes, The Rejection of Continental Drift, 313.
189: “strongly reminiscent . . .” Catton, Land Reborn, 45.
189: “Cooper studied . . . in Glacier Bay.” Ibid., 45–46.
190: “in three . . . exceedingly modest.” Ibid.
191: “In the first case . . . to the idea.” Ibid., 50.
191–92: “A MONSTROUS . . . faddists . . . ask him about.” Bohn, Glacier Bay: The Land and the Silence, 92–94.
192: “I can show . . . dust.” Eliot, The Waste Land, line 30.
193: “Tell me . . . life?” Oliver, New and Selected Poems, 94.
193: “Thousands of . . . a necessity . . .” Muir, Our National Parks, 1.
193: “I owe . . . a mere gypsy.” Fox, John Muir and His Legacy, 121.
194: “I got my money . . . acknowledgment.” Ibid., 146.
194: “Without parks . . . our nation young.” Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, 189.
194: “Was there ever a time . . . forsaken?” Ibid.
194: “many of the attributes . . . civilization.” Meine, Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work, 244.
195: “without giving so much . . . keeping them alive?” Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, 188.
195: “I am glad . . . on the map?” Ibid., 189.
196: “And over and above . . . But not always.” Bohn, Glacier Bay: The Land and the Silence, 85.
197: “Dear Bill . . . Tom Smith.” Ibid.
197–98: “Analysis of the . . . left to rot.’” Catton, Land Reborn, 174.
198: “legalized rape of Glacier Bay.” Ibid., 175.
198: “I do not think . . . are shut out.” Ibid., 53.
198: “The Place is Alaska—the Business is Mining.” Beach, Cosmopolitan, January 1936.
198: “is absolutely barren . . . parties.” Bohn, Glacier Bay: The Land and the Silence, 94.
199: “utterly wrong.” Ibid.
199: “If Congress . . . Park Service.” Ibid., 95.
199–200: “In the reservoir . . . ingenuity.” Fox, John Muir and His Legacy, 146.
200: “seems a comprehensive mistake.” Ibid.
201: “We had to get it right. . .” William E Brown, in conversation with author Kim Heacox.
Epilogue
204: “Muir lit the torch . . . so special.” Schwarzenegger, Arnold. MSNBC News Service Report: Feb. 1, 2005.
204–5: “All through history . . . is alive.” Lyon, “John Muir, the Physiology of the Brain, and the ‘Wilderness Experience,’” 27–30.
206: “Even if we stopped . . . rising seas.” Folger, National Geographic, Sept. 2013, 40.
206: “will require . . . and personal expectations.” Gilding, The Great Disruption, 97.
207: “Newscasters . . . relations.” Pipher, The Green Boat, 62.
207: “People avoid facing . . . solve.” Ibid., 3.
208: “a 1,700-mile fuse . . . on the continent.” McKibben, “The Keystone Pipeline Revolt,” 1.
209: “October 2012 . . . astronomical.” Jensen, “The Victim Liked It,” 11.
209: “Many of our . . . we are . . . planet.’” Klein, “Capitalism vs. the Climate,” 6.
210: “Through his visionary . . . our generation.” Pope, Scottish Government, April 9, 2010.
211: “the machinery of our wits.” Oliver, “Of Power and Time,” Blue Pastures, 1.
212: “happily rich.” Engberg and Merrell, Letters from Alaska, 94.
212: “defrauding.” Ibid.
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