On John Muir

When I was in Scotland on my bustour of the highlands, towards the end, the driver began quizzing us on various famous Scots ("who is __?"). One of the people he asked if we'd heard of was John Muir! This was toward the end, and no one had really been answering, so he didn't give us a chance to respond as he moved on (given up, I suppose). He proceeded to admit to us that he didn't expect that we had heard of him (much to my horror!).

And now, for those of you who weren't sure where I got my blog title from, here is a quote from one of my favorites:

"When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with the other stars, all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty."

John Muir The Story of My Boyhood and Youth (1913)