John Muir Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: April 21, 1838 - December 24, 1914
Birthday: April 21
Death: December 24
Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.
source: John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.348, Library of America
topic: Lying, Light, Ice, Mono, Glare, Granite
