This is the study, or “scribble den,” where John Muir worked from 1890 until his death in 1914, producing some of the classics of American nature writing.
Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?
The metal cup on the desk, easily hung on a belt, was a badge of membership in the Sierra Club, which Muir co-founded in 1892.
In the bowl on the mantle were balls of dried bread; Muir’s snack food.
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it …