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Quotation from The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir
“But I was only leaving one University for another, the Wisconsin University for the University of the Wilderness.”
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, Chapter VIII (Project Gutenberg #18359)
The last sentence of the book, as he takes leave of Madison from a hill above Lake Mendota.
Citation: "But I was only leaving one University for another, the Wisconsin University for the University of the Wilderness." — John Muir, The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, Chapter VIII (Project Gutenberg #18359). (id the-story-of-my-boyhood-and-youth-q8)
Portrait: John Muir 1912, Underwood & Underwood, Public domain.
