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Quotation from The Mountains of California by John Muir
“He is the mountain streams’ own darling, the humming-bird of blooming waters, loving rocky ripple-slopes and sheets of foam as a bee loves flowers, as a lark loves sunshine and meadows.”
The Mountains of California, Chapter XIII (Project Gutenberg #10012)
The opening portrait of the water-ouzel, or American dipper.
Citation: "He is the mountain streams’ own darling, the humming-bird of blooming waters, loving rocky ripple-slopes and sheets of foam as a bee loves flowers, as a lark loves sunshine and meadows." — John Muir, The Mountains of California, Chapter XIII (Project Gutenberg #10012). (id the-mountains-of-california-q5)
Portrait: John Muir 1912, Underwood & Underwood, Public domain.
