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‘glorious mountains’: Muir to David Gilrye Muir, 13 December 1867, JM online.

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Muir to California: Holmes 1999, p.190; Worster 2008, pp.147–8.

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‘cruel speed’: Muir to Jeanne Carr, 26 July 1868, JM online.

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‘To any place’: Muir 1912, p.4; see also Muir ‘Memoir’, Gifford 1996, p.96.

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‘Eden from end to’: Muir to Jeanne Carr, 26 July 1868, JM online.

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‘ploughed and pastured’: Muir, ‘The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West’,

Atlantic Monthly

, January 1898, p.17.

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‘sweet enough for’: Muir to Catherine Merrill et al., 19 July 1868, JM online; see also Muir to David Gilrye Muir, 14 July 1868; JM to Jeanne Carr, 26 July 1868, JM online; Muir ‘Memoir’, Gifford 1996, p.96ff.

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‘like the wall of’: Muir 1912, p.5.

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‘gush direct from’: Muir, ‘The Treasures of the Yosemite’,

Century,

vol.40, 1890.

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rainbows in spray: Muir 1912, p.11.

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‘underworld of mosses’: Muir 1911, p.314.

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AH counting flower cluster: Muir’s copy of AH Personal Narrative 1907, vol.2, p.306, MHT.

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counting ‘165,913’ blooms: Muir to Catherine Merrill et al., 19 July 1868, JM online.

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‘glowing arch of’: Muir to Margaret Muir Reid, 13 January 1869, JM online.

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‘When we try to pick’: This important sentence goes through various drafts from journal to published account – from ‘when we try to pick out anything by itself we find that it is bound fast by a thousand invisible cords that cannot be broken to everything in the universe’; then ‘When we try to pick out anything by itself we find that it is bound by innumerable and incalculable cords to everything else in the universe’; and then the final version in Muir’s book: ‘When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe’. Muir 1911, p.211; Muir Journal ‘Sierra’, summer 1869 (1887), MHT; Muir Journal ‘Sierra’, summer 1869 (1910), MHT.

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‘a thousand invisible’: Muir Journal ‘Sierra’, summer 1869 (1887), MHT.

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‘to learn something of’: Muir 1911, pp.321– 2.

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‘unity of all the vital’ (footnote): Muir’s copy of AH Views 1896, pp.xi, 346 and AH Cosmos 1878, vol.2, p.438, MHT.

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Muir in Yosemite: Between 1868 and 1874, Muir spent forty months in Yosemite, Gisel 2008, p.93.

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cabin in valley: Muir ‘Memoir’, Gifford 1996, p.112.

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‘screaming among the’: Muir to Jeanne Carr, 29 July 1870, JM online.

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‘the farther and higher’: Muir 1911, p.212.

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Muir’s glacial theory: Muir, ‘Yosemite Glaciers’,

New York Tribune

, 5 December 1871; see also Muir, ‘Living Glaciers of California’,

Overland Monthly

, December 1872 and Gifford 1996, p.143ff.

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stakes in glacier: Muir to Jeanne Carr, 8 October 1872; Muir to Catherine Merrill, 12 July 1872, JM online.

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‘I have nothing to send’: Muir to Jeanne Carr, 11 December 1871, ibid.

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‘trust me and talk’: Muir to J.B. McChesney, 8–9 June 1871, ibid.

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‘at the opening’: Muir to Joseph Le Conte, 27 April 1872, ibid.; Muir also highlighted the pages in Humboldt’s books that dealt with the distribution of plants. (Muir’s copy of AH Views 1896, p.317ff. and AH Personal Narrative 1907, vol.1, p.116ff., MHT.)

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‘unconditional’ surrender: Muir to Jeanne Carr, 16 March 1872, JM online.

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Muir at Upper Yosemite Fall: Muir to Jeanne Carr, 3 April 1871, ibid.

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‘as surely as a mountain’: Robert Underwood Johnson about Muir, in Gifford 1996, p.874.

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‘A noble Earthquake’: Muir to Emerson, 26 March 1872, JM online.

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‘Destruction is always’: Ibid.

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‘most suntanned and’: Muir to Emily Pelton, 16 February 1872, JM online.

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scientists arrived: Muir to Emily Pelton, 2 April 1872, JM online; Gisel 2008, pp.93, 105–6.

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‘for public use’: U.S., Statutes at Large, 15, in Nash 1982, p.106.

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colourful ‘bugs’: Muir to Daniel Muir, 21 June 1870, JM online.

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Muir and Emerson: Gifford 1996, pp.131–6; Jeanne Carr to Muir, 1 May 1871; Muir to Emerson, 8 May 1871; Muir to Emerson, 6 July 1871; Muir to Emerson, 26 March 1872, JM online.

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‘sad commentary’: Muir on Emerson, Gifford 1996, p.133.

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‘too befogged to’: Muir to Jeanne Carr, undated but this referred to Emerson’s letter to Muir of 5 February 1872, JM online.

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‘Solitude … is a sublime’: Emerson to Muir, 5 February 1872, ibid.

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Muir and loneliness: Muir underlined Thoreau’s comments on loneliness in his copy of

Walden

. Muir’s copy of Thoreau’s

Walden

(1906), pp.146, 150, 152, MHT.

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feeling and rational thought: Muir marked Humboldt’s assertion in

Cosmos

that the connection between the ‘sensuous and the intellectual’ was vital for the understanding of nature; Muir’s copy of AH Cosmos 1878, vol.2, p.438, MHT.

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‘I’m in the woods’: Muir to Jeanne Carr, autumn 1870, JM online.

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‘dancing, waltzing in’: Muir 1911, pp.79, 135.

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‘Come higher’: ibid., pp.90, 113

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‘It’s all Love’: Muir to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 26 March 1872, JM online.

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‘universal profusion’ (footnote): Muir’s copy of AH Views 1896, vol.1, pp. 210, 215, MHT.

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‘breath of Nature’: Muir 1911, pp.48, 98.

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‘part of wild Nature’: Muir 1911, p.326.

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