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Quotation from The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir
“When I was a boy in Scotland I was fond of everything that was wild, and all my life I’ve been growing fonder and fonder of wild places and wild creatures.”
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, Chapter I (Project Gutenberg #18359)
The opening sentence of the book.
Citation: "When I was a boy in Scotland I was fond of everything that was wild, and all my life I’ve been growing fonder and fonder of wild places and wild creatures." — John Muir, The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, Chapter I (Project Gutenberg #18359). (id the-story-of-my-boyhood-and-youth-q1)
Portrait: John Muir 1912, Underwood & Underwood, Public domain.
