Creator

John Muir

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3 currents of the ocean called space, as the pulsed globules of [ ] & all animals are pulsed as globules in currents & by a heart that as yet we little know Thus all small things are builded to bigger things by simple aggregation & these again added to still higher [winds] [not] [ ] any stopping place of a radical kind

[Sketch: Front lol [between] 2 gl [streams] [ ] [ ] [clrk] 1800 h]

4 Yosem crk in winter. Banked [grandly] in [wreathy] [ ] snow white & ample dripped with icicle, groves of border bent to ground in splendid bowing arches. Water flows [ ] lol [between] walls of [spirit] white sometimes flood, warm winds – warm rains gush & gather in flood waves. Morning breaks in thin beamless [bright/light] shadows on smooth [ ] of drifted snow. A few domes always bare smooth & steep spring in loud voice

Date Original

1872

Source

Original journal dimensions: 7 x 15 cm.

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MuirReel23Journal08P003-004.tif

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Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library

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Keywords

John Muir, journals, drawings, writings, travel, journaling, naturalist

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