John Muir at 74 Back From Quest For Queer Trees. Veteran California Naturalist Climbed Mountains of South America and Africa. Found What He Sought in the Two Continents. 'He is More Wonderful than Thoreau,' Ralph Waldo Emerson Once Said of Him.
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Kimes Entry Number
A27-a
Original Date
3-31-1912
Publication
New York World
Reprint/Offprint
For a complete reprint of this interview see no. A40.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "John Muir at 74 Back From Quest For Queer Trees. Veteran California Naturalist Climbed Mountains of South America and Africa. Found What He Sought in the Two Continents. 'He is More Wonderful than Thoreau,' Ralph Waldo Emerson Once Said of Him." (1912). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986). 630.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/630
William and Maymie Kimes Annotation
When the reporter asked Muir to tell all about his trip, his response was, 'But I cannot tell you all. There are so many things that it would take me one year to go through my notebooks."" Upon further urging, Muir did relate his traveling 1,000 miles up the Amazon, saying, ""And theforest along the Amazon-it is the heaviest and most impenetrable in the world, the largest piece of wild forest in existence. But the soil in the basin is very fertile, and some time it will be cleared for the benefit of the human race."" Muir proceeded to touch on his travels in Chile and Africa after which he commented, ""I have material to write a hundred books, but I feel I am wasting my time when I write books. If I keep on writing books I will have no time to climb mountains.""