Plunge into the Wilderness

Authors

John Muir

Files

Kimes Entry Number

312

Original Date

12-1-1912

William and Maymie Kimes Annotation

In these selections from The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, Muir tells of crossing the Atlantic in a sailing vessel, and of his father's locating land for a home by Fountain Lake in Wisconsin. Elated with the wild country, Muir prefaces his many stories of exciting boyish exploration with, "This sudden splash into pure wilderness,-- baptism in Nature's warm Heart, -- how utterly happy it made us! Nature streaming into us, wooingly teaching, preaching her glorious, living lessons, so unlike the dismal grammer ashes and cinders so long thrashed into us. Here, without knowing it, we still were at school; every wild lesson a love lesson, not whipped, but charmed into us." See no. 315, pp. 56-131.

Publication

The Atlantic Monthly, v. 110, no.6

Page/Column

pp. 813-825

Recommended Citation

Muir, John, "Plunge into the Wilderness" (1912). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986). 352.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/352