Bee-Pastures of California: In Two Parts:-I.

Authors

John Muir

Files

Kimes Entry Number

145

Original Date

6-1-1882

William and Maymie Kimes Annotation

""When California was wild, it was one sweet bee-garden through its entire length .... "" Muir laments that ""of late years plow and sheep have made sad havoc in these glorious pastures, destroying tens of thousands of the flowery acres like fire .... "" After describing his experience in the Great Central Plain throughout the seasons as it was a decade and more ago, Muir aptly predicts: ""The time will undoubtedly come when the entire area of this noble valley will be tilled like a garden, when the fertilizing waters of the mountains, now flowing to the sea, will be distributed to every acre, giving rise to prosperous towns, wealth, arts, etc. Then I suppose there will be few left, even among botanists, to deplore the vanished primeval flora.""

Publication

The Century Magazine, v. 24, (n.s., v. 2), June, 1882

Page/Column

pp. 222-229

See also Kimes Entry Number

See also: no. 154; no. 189, pp. 338-359; no. 341, v. 5, pp .. 76-99

Recommended Citation

Muir, John, "Bee-Pastures of California: In Two Parts:-I." (1882). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986). 193.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/193