“Cold Mountain Son
Forever not change
I live alone
Beyond life death”
Han-shan Chinese monk and poet
Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry
“I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer.”
letter to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr, from Yosemite Valley (7 October 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 <br class="br">1870s
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