My First Summer in the Sierra.

Authors

John Muir

Files

Kimes Entry Number

298

Original Date

4-1-1911

William and Maymie Kimes Annotation

This last portion of Muir's journal to appear in magazine form tells of late autumn days in Tuolumne Meadows: "Frost enough for crystal-building -- glorious fields of ice-diamonds destined to last but a night. How lavish is Nature, building, pulling down, creating, destroying, chasing every material particle from form to form, ever changing, ever beautiful." As the time arrives to turn the flock homeward, Muir muses: "Away we go, down through the pines, leaving the lovely lawn where we have camped so. I wonder if I'll ever see it again." Upon finally reaching the lowlands, he happily concludes: "Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best all the Lord has built. ANd, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefullly pray I may see it again." Selections are from no. 200, pp. 250-[354].

Publication

The Atlantic Monthly, v. 107, no. 4

Page/Column

pp. 521-528

Recommended Citation

Muir, John, "My First Summer in the Sierra." (1911). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986). 338.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/338