All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit - the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine.
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John Muir:
I have heard of Texas pioneers living without bread or anything made from the cereals for months wiJohn Muir:
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When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and isJohn Muir:
I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of theJohn Muir:
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