“It seems strange that visitors to Yosemite should be so little influenced by its novel grandeur, as if their eyes were bandanged and their ears stopped. Most of those I saw yesterday were lo...”
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Introduction by Mike Davis; Illustrated with photographs by Herbert W. Gleason and drawings by the author
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John Muir
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“It seems strange that visitors to Yosemite should be so little influenced by its novel grandeur, as if their eyes were bandanged and their ears stopped. Most of those I saw yesterday were lo...”
“Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save tim...”
“This time it is real — all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!”