 | 1917 - 692 pagine
...Tyndall, John Muir commented dryly: 'He must have given himself a lot of trouble. When I climbed lyndall I ran up and back before breakfast.' "At a time when...he selected the lee side of a log, made a fire, and weht to sleep on a bed of pine-needles. If it was snowing he made a bigger fire and lay closer to his... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1917 - 692 pagine
...light ineffably fine, and as beautiful as a rainbow, yet firm as adamant. It seemed to me the Sierra should be called not the Nevada, or Snowy Range, but the Range of Light. And after ten years spent in the heart of it, rejoicing and wondering, bathing in its glorious floods... | |
 | John Muir - 1912 - 378 pagine
...as they do in a rainbow, making a wall of light ineffably fine. Then it seemed to me that the Sierra should be called, not the Nevada or Snowy Range, but the Range of Light. And after ten years of wandering and wondering in the heart of it, rejoicing in its glorious floods... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge, William Fayal Clarke, Albert Gallatin Lanier, Maurice R. Robinson - 1916 - 910 pagine
...frost and snow. He would wander for days on the heights without gun or any provisions and implements except bread, tea, a tin cup, pocket-knife, and short-handled...shelter. "Outdoors is the natural place for man," he said. "I begin to cough and wheeze the minute I get within walls." Never at a loss to make his way... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1917 - 662 pagine
...frost and snow. He would wander for days on the heights without gun or any provisions and implements except bread, tea, a tin cup, pocket-knife, and short-handled...shelter. "Outdoors is the natural place for man," he said. "I begin to cough and wheeze the minute I get within walls." Never at a loss to make his way... | |
 | John Muir - 1917 - 354 pagine
...as they do in a rainbow, making a wall of light ineffably fine. Then it seemed to me that the Sierra should be called, not the Nevada or Snowy Range, but the Range of Light. And after ten years of wandering and wondering in the heart of it, rejoicing in its glorious floods... | |
 | Harrison Smith - 1921 - 272 pagine
...composite, and the luminous mountain wall was shining in all its glory. Then it seemed to me that the Sierra should be called not the Nevada, or Snowy Range, but the Range of Light. And after ten years spent in the heart of it, rejoicing and wondering, bathing in its glorious lights... | |
 | John Muir - 1917 - 354 pagine
...compositse, and the luminous wall of the mountains shone in all its glory. Then it seemed to me the Sierra should be called, not the Nevada, or Snowy Range, but the Range of Light. And after ten years spent in the heart of it, rejoicing and wondering, bathing in its glorious floods... | |
 | California Historical Society - 1925 - 472 pagine
...nature. In "The Mountains of California" (page 5), he sings its praises: Then it seemed to me the Sierra should be called not the Nevada, or Snowy Range, but the Range of Light. And after ten years spent in the heart of it, rejoicing and wondering, bathing in its glorious floods... | |
 | Francis Peloubet Farquhar - 1925 - 76 pagine
...nature. In "The Mountains of California" (page 5), he sings its praises: Then it seemed to me the Sierra should be called not the Nevada, or Snowy Range, but the Range of Light. And after ten years spent in the heart of it, rejoicing and wondering, bathing in its glorious floods... | |
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Then it seemed to me that the Sierra should be called, not the Nevada or Snowy Range, but the Range of Light. 
