“No portion of the world is so barren as not to yield a rich and precious harvest of divine truth.”

—  John Muir

&quot;Arctic Coal Mines — The Diomede Bay Islands&quot;, San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin (part 18 of 21 part series &quot;Cruise of the Corwin&quot;) dated 25 August 1881, published 25 October 1881; reprinted in The Cruise of the Corwin http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/cruise_of_the_corwin/default.aspx (1917), chapter 17: Meeting the Point Barrow Expedition <br class="br">1880s

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Scottish-born American naturalist and author 1838–1914

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