I gathered pocketfuls of shells, mostly small but fine in color and form and bits of rosy coral. Then I amused myself by watching the varying colors of the waves and the different forms of their curved and blossoming crests. While thus alone and free it was interesting to learn the richly [varying] songs, or what we mortals call “the roar” of expiring breakers. I compared their variations with the different distances to which the broken wave-waters reached landward in their farthest foam wreaths and endeavored to form some ideas of the one great song sounding forever all around the white blooming shores of the world. Rising from my shell seat I returned to the outside of Nature, watched when a wave leaping from the deep came far up the ...
the rocks. Bird tracks, ‘bar’ tracks, ‘hoss’ tracks, men’s tracks, all in the solid rock as if it h...
and soothed to a spirit calm, but wondrous in works, broidering the blackness in silver light. I di...
We sailed landward for hours, the misty shore becoming gradually more earth-like. A flock of white ...
I gathered pocketfuls of shells, mostly small but fine in color and form and bits of rosy coral. Th...
their return to the blue deep, wading in their spangled decaying fragments until I chased up the ban...
comet-tailed streamers blow from the curled top of every wave. A big vessel responds awkwardly with...
On this fifty-third day of travel I reached the Sea. While I was yet many miles back in the forest ...
our deck was white with broken wavetops. “You had better go below,” said the Captain to me, “The Gu...
icelands or hotlands, or up in the air in balloon bubbles, or on the ocean in ships, or down in it i...
Thus and here my long walk was interrupted. I thought that a few days of rocking in the Gulf waves ...
searches to within 10 or 12 miles of Havana. Captain Parsons offered his help as my headquarters an...
Not only was the hold full of them, but the deck also to a level of the bulwarks, and being boarded ...
rise on the wing, dripping and sparkling, glance again into the lucid brine with great speed, but wi...
I was now in one of my happy dreamlands, in the fairest of West India isles, but how, thought I, sha...
John Muir, Earth-planet, Universe About [29 or ] 39,000 words Few bodies are inhabited by so satisf...
the rocks. Bird tracks, ‘bar’ tracks, ‘hoss’ tracks, men’s tracks, all in the solid rock as if it h...
and soothed to a spirit calm, but wondrous in works, broidering the blackness in silver light. I di...
We sailed landward for hours, the misty shore becoming gradually more earth-like. A flock of white ...
I gathered pocketfuls of shells, mostly small but fine in color and form and bits of rosy coral. Th...
their return to the blue deep, wading in their spangled decaying fragments until I chased up the ban...
comet-tailed streamers blow from the curled top of every wave. A big vessel responds awkwardly with...
On this fifty-third day of travel I reached the Sea. While I was yet many miles back in the forest ...
our deck was white with broken wavetops. “You had better go below,” said the Captain to me, “The Gu...
icelands or hotlands, or up in the air in balloon bubbles, or on the ocean in ships, or down in it i...
Thus and here my long walk was interrupted. I thought that a few days of rocking in the Gulf waves ...
searches to within 10 or 12 miles of Havana. Captain Parsons offered his help as my headquarters an...
Not only was the hold full of them, but the deck also to a level of the bulwarks, and being boarded ...
rise on the wing, dripping and sparkling, glance again into the lucid brine with great speed, but wi...
I was now in one of my happy dreamlands, in the fairest of West India isles, but how, thought I, sha...
John Muir, Earth-planet, Universe About [29 or ] 39,000 words Few bodies are inhabited by so satisf...
the rocks. Bird tracks, ‘bar’ tracks, ‘hoss’ tracks, men’s tracks, all in the solid rock as if it h...
and soothed to a spirit calm, but wondrous in works, broidering the blackness in silver light. I di...
We sailed landward for hours, the misty shore becoming gradually more earth-like. A flock of white ...