My First Summer in the Sierra
This is the book that made America fall in love with Yosemite. In the summer of 1869, John Muir, a young Scottish immigrant with little money but boundless curiosity, took a job herding sheep into the high Sierra Nevada. What he found there changed not only his life but the course of American conservation. The diary he kept that season became this book, first published in 1911. Muir writes with the precision of a naturalist and the reverence of a man who sees the divine in every snowflake and granite spire. He walks through meadows carpeted with wildflowers, watches thunderstorms roll across peaks that have never known a human footprint, and records the comings and goings of deer, bears, and birds with the excitement of a man discovering Eden. The book that introduced millions to Yosemite and helped birth the environmental movement.
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“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.””
— John Muir
“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 time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.””
— John Muir
“Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.””
— John Muir
“Nothing truly wild is unclean.””
— John Muir
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.””
— John Muir
“This time it is real”
— John Muir
“A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.””
— John Muir
“Every morning, arising from the death of sleep, the happy plants and all our fellow animal creatures great and small, and even the rocks, seemed to be shouting, "Awake, awake, rejoice, rejoice, come love us and join in our song. Come! Come!””
— John Muir
“Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.””
— John Muir
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