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Quotation from The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir
“Here without knowing it we still were at school; every wild lesson a love lesson, not whipped but charmed into us.”
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, Chapter II (Project Gutenberg #18359)
Comparing the lessons of the Wisconsin wilderness with the grammars beaten into him in Dunbar.
Citation: "Here without knowing it we still were at school; every wild lesson a love lesson, not whipped but charmed into us." — John Muir, The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, Chapter II (Project Gutenberg #18359). (id the-story-of-my-boyhood-and-youth-q3)
Portrait: John Muir 1912, Underwood & Underwood, Public domain.
