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5 Sings richest songs. Flowers come & bees & squirrels. Life & warm blooded joy of summer vibrates responsively to the cold white paler life of winter. All its allowance of snow crystals cakes, melted, & away it droops & withers to a [ ] of whispers & tinkles scarce flaming in the sun dried stones. Trees in camp bright & grasses & weeds impressive beyond thought. So palpably Godful
6 in form & in wind motion, wind in the breath. The blood of God. The pines spiring around me higher higher to the star flowered sky are plainly full of God, God in them, they in God & these brown weeds & grasses, that we say are dying in autumn frosts are in a gushing glowing current of life, they too are Godful & immortal. Oh the infinite abundance & universality of Beauty. Beauty is God, what shall we say of God that we may not say of Beauty
Date Original
1872
Source
Original journal dimensions: 7 x 15 cm.
Resource Identifier
MuirReel23Journal08P005-006.tif
Publisher
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
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Keywords
John Muir, journals, drawings, writings, travel, journaling, naturalist
