I decided to take a brief, at least one book, break from reading science fiction. I’ve been on a bit of a science fiction binge lately when it comes to my reading choices and wanted to give that part of my brain a rest. With that in mind, I decided…
Day: August 2, 2016
From Chapter 7, The Glacier Meadows: This is a glacier meadow. It is about a mile and a half long by a quarter of a mile wide. The trees come pressing forward all around in close serried ranks, planting their feet exactly on its margin, and holding themselves erect, strict…
From Chapter 7, The Glacier Meadows: The influences of pure nature seem to be so little known as yet, that it is generally supposed that complete pleasure of this kind, permeating one’s very flesh and bones, unfits the student for scientific pursuits in which cool judgement and observation are required.…
This rather long passage came from Chapter Five, The Passes: To the timid traveler, fresh from the sedimentary levels of the lowlands, these highways, however picturesque and grand, seem terribly forbidding-cold, dead, gloomy gashes in the bones of the mountains, and all of Nature’s ways the ones to be most…