# M

**MAGNOLIA GRANDIFLORA**

"A magnificent tree in fruit and foliage as well as in flower."

A THOUSAND MILE WALK TO THE GULF, pg.64

"It speaks itself a prince among its fellows."

A THOUSAND MILE WALK TO THE GULF, pg.91

**MAN CHANGES ENVIRONMENT**

"Man, too, is making many far reaching changes. This most influential
half animal, half angel is rapidly multiplying and spreading, covering
the seas and lakes with ships, the land with huts, hotels, cathedrals,
and clustered city shops and homes, so that soon, it would seem, we may
have to go further than Nansen to find a good sound solitude."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.4

**MANZANITA**

"The branches are knotty, zigzaggy, and about as rigid as bones, and the
bark is so thin and smooth, both trunk and branches seem to be naked,
looking as if they had been peeled, polished, and painted red."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.144

**MILITARY (Muir's Views)**

"The axe is not yet at the root of every tree, but the sheep is, or was
before the national parks were established and guarded by the military,
the only effective and reliable arm of the government free from the
blight of politics."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.352

**MINING**

"Mining discoveries and progress, retrogression and decay, seem to have
been crowded more closely against each other here than on any other
portion of the globe."

STEEP TRAILS, pg.142

# MINING PROSPECTORS

"The fever period is fortunately passing away. The prospector is no
longer the raving, wandering ghoul of ten years ago, rushing in random
lawlessness among the hills, hungry and footsore; but cool and skillful,
well supplied with every necessary, and clad in his right mind."

STEEP TRAILS, pg.145

"Perhaps one in a hundred of these brave prospectors would "strike it
rich", while ninety-nine died alone in the mountains or sank out of site
in the corners of saloons, in a haze of whiskey and tabacco smoke."

STEEP TRAILS, pg.142

**MOONLIGHT**

"I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me
strong. Down through the junipers; down through the firs; now in jet
shadows; now in white light; over sandy moraines and bare, clanking
rocks; past the huge ghost of South Dome rising weird through the firs;
past the glorious fall of Nevada, the groves of Illilouette; through the
pines of the valley; beneath the bright crystal sky blazing with stars.
All of this mountain wealth in one day! One of the rich ripe days that
enlarge one's life; so much of the sun upon one side of it, so much of
the moon and stars on the other."

STEEP TRAILS, pg.19

"The moon is looking down into the canon, and how marvelously the great
rocks kindle to her light! Every dome, and brow, and swelling boss
touched by her white rays, glows as if lighted with snow.\"

STEEP TRAILS, pg.15

**MONEY**

"I might have become a millionaire, but I chose to become a tramp!"

SON OF THE WILDERNESS, pg.110

**MOSS, SPANISH (Tillandsia usneoikes)**

"It drapes all the branches from top to bottom, hanging in long
silver-gray skeins, reaching a length of not less than eight or ten
feet, and when slowly waving in the wind they produce a solemn funereal
effect singularly impressive."

A THOUSAND MILE WALK TO THE GULF, pg.68

**MOUNTAINEERING**

"Nearly all my mountaineering has been done on foot, carrying as little
as possible, depending on campfires for warmth, that so I might be light
and free to go wherever my studies might lead."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.285

"Doubly happy, however, is the man whom lofty mountain tops are within
reach, for the lights that shine there illumine all that lies below."

STEEP TRAILS, pg.192

**MOUNTAINEERS**

"Therefore we are all, in some sense, mountaineers, and going to the
mountains is going home."

STEEP TRAILS, pg.33

"Mountaineers, however, always find in themselves a reserve of power
after great exhaustion. It is a kind of second life, available only in
emergencies like this; and, having proved its existence, I had no great
fear that either of us would fail, though one of my arms was already
benumbed and hung powerless."

STEEP TRAILS, pg.55

**MOUNTAINEERS cont.**

"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer."

LIFE AND LETTERS OF JOHN MUIR, pg.207

"The life of a mountaineer seems to be particularly favorable to the
development of soul-life, as well as limb-life, each receiving abundance
of exercise and abundance of food."

LIFE AND LETTERS OF JOHN MUIR, pg.196

**MOUNTAIN BED**

"No Highlander in heather enjoys more luxurious rest than the Sierra
mountaineer in a blooming bed of bryanthus."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.148

**MOUNTAIN MEN**

An excellent historical description of "Free Trappers."

STEEP TRAILS, pg.230

"These men as a class are singularly fine in manners, though their faces
may be scarred and rough like the bark of trees."

STEEP TRAILS, pg.31

"These men know the mountains far and near, and their thousand voices,
like the leaves of a book. They can tell where the deer may be found at
any time of year or day, and what they are doing; and so of all the
other furred and feathered people they meet in their walks; and they can
send a thought to its mark as well as a bullet. The aims of such people
are not always the highest, yet how brave and manly and clean are their
lives compared with too many in crowded towns mildewed and dwarfed in
disease and crime!"

STEEP TRAILS, pg.32

**MOUNTAIN QUAIL**

"...like every true mountaineer, he is quick to follow the spring back
into the highest mountains."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.220

**MOUNTAINS**

"Thousands of God's wild blessings will search you and soak you as if
you were a sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.17

"Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain-passes. They will kill care,
save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty
into vigorous, enthusiastic action. Even the sick should try these
so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill,
they cure a thousand."

MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA, pg.79

**MOUNTAINS cont.**

"...perhaps more than all, I was animated by a mountaineer's eagerness
to get my feet in the snow once more, and my head into the clear sky,
after lying dormant all winter at the level of the sea."

STEEP TRAILS, pg.91-92

"Here I could stay tethered forever with just bread and water, nor would
I be lonely; loved friends and neighbors, as love for everything
increased, would seem all the nearer however many the miles and
mountains between us."

MY FIRST SUMMER IN THE SIERRA, pg.22

"The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of
men."

STEEP TRAILS, pg.33

"The time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of
shortening, it will indefinitely lengthen it and make you truly
immortal. Nevermore will time seem short or long, and cares will never
again fall heavily on you, but gently and kindly as gifts from heaven."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.19

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will
flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their
own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will
drop off like autumn leaves."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.56

"What wonders lie in every mountain day!...Crystals of snow, plash of
small raindrops, hum of small insects, booming beetles, the jolly rattle
of grasshoppers, chirping of crickets, the screaming of hawks, jays, and
Clark crows, the 'coo-r-r-r' of cranes, the honking of geese, partridges
drumming, trumpeting swans, frogs croaking, the whirring rattle of
snakes, the awful enthusiasm of booming falls, the roar of cataracts,
the crash and roll of thunder, earthquake shocks, the whisper of rills
soothing to slumber, the piping of marmots, the bark of squirrels, the
laugh of a wolf, the snorting of deer, the explosive roaring of bears,
the squeak of mice, the cry of the loon\-\--loneliest, wildest of
sounds..."

"A fine place for feasting if only one be poor enough. One is speedily
absorbed into the spiritual value of things. The body vanishes and the
freed soul goes abroad..."

JOHN OF THE MOUNTAINS, pg.92-93

"Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to
work and rest!"

MY FIRST SUMMER IN THE SIERRA, pg.61

"The mountains are calling and I must go, and I will work on while I
can, studying incessantly."

LIFE AND LETTERS OF JOHN MUIR, pg.190

**MOUNT HOOD**

"There stood Mount Hood in all the glory of the alpenglow, looming
intensely high, beaming with intelligence and so impressive that one was
overawed as if suddenly brought before some superior being newly arrived
from the sky."

STEEP TRAILS, pg.211

**MOUNT LASSEN**

"The ascent of Lassen's Butte is an easy walk and the views from the
summit are extremely telling."

STEEP TRAILS, pg.38

**MOUNT RAINIER**

"The Mount Rainier Forest reserve should be made a national park and
guarded while yet its bloom is on; for if in the making of the West
Nature had what we call parks in mind,\-\--places for rest, inspiration,
and prayers,\-\--this Rainier region must surely be one of them."

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.30

**MOUNT SHASTA**

"Up the canyon to Shasta would be a cure for all care."

STEEP TRAILS, pg.33

"But with such grand displays as Nature is making here, how grand are
her reservations, bestowed only upon those who devotedly seek them!"

STEEP TRAILS, pg.25

"How many caves and fountains that no eye has yet seen lie with all
their fine furniture deep down in the darkness, and how many shy wild
creatures are at home beneath the grateful lights and shadows of the
woods, rejoicing in their fullness of perfect life!"

STEEP TRAILS, pg.25

"But Shasta is always at home to those who love her, and is ever in a
thrill of enthusiastic activity\-\--burning fires within, grinding
glaciers without, and fountains ever flowing."

STEEP TRAILS, pg.60

# MOUNT WANDA

"My birthday -- I am told the fifty-seventh, and yet I feel only a boy.
Must make haste and get my work done ere the night falls. Made an
excursion with the babes to Mount Wanda."

JOHN OF THE MOUNTAINS, pg.340

**MOUNT WANDA cont.**

"Another lovely day, mostly solid sunshine. Took a fine fragrant walk up
the West Hills with Wanda and Helen, who I am glad to see love walking,
flowers, trees, and every bird and beast and creeping thing. Buttercup,
clover, gilia, Brodiaea, Allium, Dodecatheon, larkspur, and portulacas
are in flower. The oaks are in full leaf. A fine fragrant walk, the
babies delighted."

JOHN OF THE MOUNTAINS, pg.338

**MUIR (on himself)**

"You'll find me rough as the rocks and about the same color as granite."

LIFE AND LETTERS OF JOHN MUIR, pg.164

# MUSIC

"All things move in music and write it."

LIFE AND LETTERS OF JOHN MUIR, pg.203