Van Hise, Charles R., Page 6

• Main Author: Van Hise, Charles R.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1916
• Subjects: John Muir; biography; reminiscence; colleagues; contemporaries; archives; special collections; University of the Pacific; California; Holt-Atherton Special Collections; history; naturalist; Atherton; Glacier Bay; Goldfields; Pacific; Snowy Range; glacier; glaciers; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmr-all/38; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmr-all/article/1039/type/native/viewcontent

reads his descriptions with pleasure; and, while they are clothed with human warmth, he finds them in accord with strict truth. But John Muir's most profound emotion was aroused by magnificent scenery, and this he always saw in its relations to sky and cloud. The Sierra Nevada he thus epitomize...