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Quotation from The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir
“This sudden plash into pure wildness—baptism in Nature’s warm heart—how utterly happy it made us!”
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, Chapter II (Project Gutenberg #18359)
The boys' first days at Fountain Lake in the spring of 1849.
Citation: "This sudden plash into pure wildness—baptism in Nature’s warm heart—how utterly happy it made us!" — John Muir, The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, Chapter II (Project Gutenberg #18359). (id the-story-of-my-boyhood-and-youth-q2)
Virtues: Hope
Portrait: John Muir 1912, Underwood & Underwood, Public domain.
