Letters to a Friend 



period rather, was in a kind of calm, uncurable 

 ecstasy. I am hopelessly and forever a moun 

 taineer. 



How glorious my studies seem, and how sim 

 ple! I found out a noble truth concerning the 

 Merced moraines that escaped me hitherto. 

 Civilization and fever and all the morbidness 

 that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my 

 glacial eyes, and I care to live only to entice 

 people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own 

 special self is nothing. My feet have recovered 

 their cunning. I feel myself again. Tell Keith 

 the colors are coming to the groves. 



I leave Yosemite for over the mountains to 

 Mono [?] and Lake Tahoe in a week, thence 

 anywhere, Shastaward, etc. I think I may 

 be at Brownsville, Yuba County, where I may 

 get a letter from you. I promised to call on 

 Emily Pelton there. 



Farewell. 



JOHN MUIR. 



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