The Invention of Nature

‘Four cloudless April’: Muir Journal ‘Twenty Hill Hollow’ 1869, 5 April 1869; Holmes 1999, p.197.

83

‘mountain temple’: Muir to Jeanne Carr, 20 May 1869, ibid.

84

‘a thousand windows’: Muir 1911, pp. 82, 205.

85

preaching nature like ‘apostle’: Muir to Daniel Muir, 17 April 1869, JM online.

86

‘violation of these’: Muir’s copy of AH Personal Narrative 1907, vol.1, p.502, see also vol.2, p.214, MHT; Muir’s copy AH Cosmos 1878, vol.2, pp.377, 381, 393, MHT.

87

‘no other worship’: Muir’s copy of AH Personal Narrative 1907, vol.2, p.362, MHT.

88

‘sacred sanctuaries’: Muir’s copy of AH Views 1896, p.21, MHT.

89

‘sanctum sanctorum’: Muir to Jeanne Carr, 26 July 1868, JM online.

90

Muir highlighted references to AH: Muir’s Thoreau and Darwin books, MHT.

91

Muir and AH’s comments on deforestation: Muir’s copy of AH Personal Narrative 1907, vol.1, pp.98, 207, 215, 476–7; vol.2, pp.9–10, 153, 207, MHT; Muir’s copy of AH Views 1896, pp.98, 215, MHT.

92

15 million acres: Johnson 1999, p.515.

93

railway tracks: Richardson 2007, p.131; Johnson 1999, p.535.

94

‘The rough conquest’: Frederick Jackson Turner in 1903, Nash 1982, p.147.

95

‘entice people to look’: Muir to Jeanne Carr, 7 October 1874, JM online.

96

Muir and

Man and Nature

: Wolfe 1946, p.83.

97

for ‘national preserves’: Muir’s copy of Thoreau’s

Maine Woods

(1868), p.160 and also pp.122–3, 155, 158, MHT.

98

‘Nature’ was ‘a poet’: Muir 1911, p.211.

99

‘Our foreheads felt’: Samuel Merrill, ‘Personal Recollections of John Muir’; see also Robert Underwood Johnson, C. Hart Merriam, ‘To the Memory of John Muir’, Gifford 1996, pp.875, 889, 891, 895.

100 ‘glory in it all’: Muir and Sargent, September 1898, Anderson 1915, p.119.

101 ‘Squirrelville, Sequoia Co’: Muir to Jeanne Carr, autumn 1870, JM online.

102 a glorious wilderness’: Muir 1911, pp.17, 196.

103 ‘You cannot warm’ (footnote): Daniel Muir to Muir, 19 March 1874, JM online.

104 Muir in San Francisco: Worster 2008, p.216ff.

105 ‘barren & beeless’: Muir to Strentzels, 28 January 1879, JM online.

106 Muir about his future: Muir to Sarah Galloway, 12 January 1877, JM online; Worster 2008, p.238.

107 Carr introduced Louie: Worster 2008, p.238ff.

108 ‘lost & choked’: Muir to Millicent Shin, 18 April 1883, JM online.

109 Muir as father: Worster 2008, p.262.

110 Louie in Yosemite: Muir to Annie Muir, 16 July 1884, JM online.

111 Louie’s father died: Worster 2008, pp.324–5; for management of Martinez, see Kennedy 1996, p.31.

112 Muir, Johnson and Yosemite: Worster 2008, p.312ff., Nash 1982, p.131ff.

113 ‘no doubt these trees’: Muir 1920.

114 ‘But the pine is no’ (footnote): Muir’s copy of Thoreau’s Maine Woods (1868), p.123.

115 articles in the Century: Muir, ‘The Treasures of the Yosemite’ and ‘Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park’, Century, vols. 40 and 41, 1890.

116 ‘mountain streets full of life’: and following quotes, Muir, ‘The Treasures of the Yosemite’, Century, vol.40, 1890.

117 Yosemite National Park: Nash 1982, p.132.

118 ‘Uncle Sam’: Muir 1901, p.365.

119 ‘defence association’: Robert Underwood Johnson, 1891, Nash 1982, p.132.

120 ‘do something for wildness’: Muir to Henry Senger, 22 May 1892, JM online.

121 Muir’s publications: Kimes and Kimes 1986, pp.1–162.

122 ‘I do not want anyone’: Theodore Roosevelt to Muir, 14 March 1903, JM online.

123 ‘solemn temple of’: Theodore Roosevelt to Muir, 19 May 1903, ibid.

124 ‘I have no plan’: Muir to Charles Sprague Sargent, 3 January1898, ibid.

125 Hetch Hetchy fight: Nash 1982, pp.161–81; Muir, ‘The Hetch Hetchy Valley’, Sierra Club Bulletin

, vol.6, no.4, January 1908.

126 ‘universal struggle’: New York Times, 4 September 1913.

127 ‘aroused from sleep’: Muir to Robert Underwood Johnson, 1 January 1914, Nash 1982, p.180.

128 ‘Nothing dollarable is’: Muir, Memorandum from John Muir, 19 May 1908 (for 1908 Governors Conference on Conservation), JM online.

129 plans for South America early years: Muir to Daniel Muir, 17 April and 24 September 1869; Muir to Mary Muir, 2 May 1869; Muir to Jeanne Carr, 2 October 1870; Muir to J.B. McChesney, 8 June 1871, ibid.

130 ‘Have I forgotten’: Muir to Betty Averell, 2 March 1911, Branch 2001, p.15.

131 Muir in Berlin: Muir, 26–9 June 1903, Muir Journal ‘World Tour’, pt.1, 1903, JM online.

132 ‘your Humboldt trip[s]’: Helen S. Wright to Muir, 8 May 1878, ibid.

133 ‘under Humboldt’: Henry F. Osborn to Muir, 18 November 1897, ibid.

134 to be ‘a Humboldt’: Muir to Jeanne Carr, 13 September 1865, ibid.

135 ‘before it is too late’: Muir to Robert Underwood Johnson, 26 January 1911, Branch 2001, p.10; see also p.xxvi ff.; Fay Sellers to Muir, 8 August 1911, JM online.

136 Muir leaves California for East Coast: Branch 2001, pp.7–9.

137 ‘the great hot river’: Muir to Katharine Hooker, 10 August 1911, ibid., p.31.

138 ‘Don’t fret about’: Muir to Helen Muir Funk, 12 August 1911, ibid., p.32.

139 ‘I only went out’: Muir in 1913, Wolfe 1979, p.439.

Epilogue

1

Boston orator: Louis Agassiz, 14 September 1869,