
“Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?”
Variant: What are men to rocks and mountains?
Source: Pride and Prejudice
Source: Camino Real
“Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?”
Variant: What are men to rocks and mountains?
Source: Pride and Prejudice
"From Fort Independence to Yosemite", San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin (part 6 of the 11 part series "Summering in the Sierra") dated September 1875, published 15 September 1875; reprinted in John Muir: Summering in the Sierra, edited by Robert Engberg (University of Wisconsin Press, 1984) page 113
1870s
“My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.”
excerpt from the mother's story in "Of Song"
Sjálfstætt fólk (Independent People) (1935), Book One, Part II: Free of Debt
Source: The Visitor (2002), Ch. 1 : caigo faience, first lines (p. 1)
letter to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr, from Yosemite Valley (September 1874); published in William Federic Badè, The Life and Letters of John Muir http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/life/life_and_letters/default.aspx (1924), chapter 11: On Widening Currents
1870s