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these variations on the "tugs" theme attributed to John Muir are correct. They are simply paraphrases Once again - Muir never used the word "tugs" when writing about the interconnections of things! None of

Misquote: "And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul." A variant of this is "And into the forest I go, to lose myself and find my soul." Although this quote can be found nowhere in Muir's writing, one recent source even brazenly attributed this misquote to a specific date in John Muir's journal - July 27, 1869 - but a careful examination of the original of the entry for that date reveals nothing approximating it whatsoever. If you do know of a documented primary source of any of these well-intentioned paraphrases - please let us know! Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe." A less popular variant of this misquote, but which appears to be another early source we can find on the Internet through a Google search is from 1997, where the authors of a paper titled Report on Integrated Practice: 4: Roadmap for Integration - American Institute of Architects claimed (without citation) that Muir said: However, there appear to many sources publishing a different ending, attributing it to John Muir, with the text at the end reading: "away from you like the leaves of autumn."But we are unable to find this version anywhere in the in Muir's actual published writings or his digitized journals and letters, including the archive of the John Muir Papers at the University of the Pacific. This variation is found only in secondary sources, not in Muir's published or unpublished writings. For example, a search on Google Books results in numerous books or magazines with that incorrect version of the quote. The most recent listed as of this writing (May 2020) was from a book of camping quotes published in 2016, but there also appear to be many earlier versions attributing this version to John Muir, with representations in the 90s, 50s, 30's, 20's etc. Muir's famous quote "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings..." is often misquoted as "climb the mountains and get their glad tidings." That kind of mistake is obvious, with its Christmas connotations. But there is also another misquote feauturing an alternative ending that has been around for decades. Worse, we even found it engraved on granite, and posted on signs at places like zoos and botanical gardens.

According to a November 4, 2018 communication from Mariah Danu, she wrote this last version in October of 2014 on Tumblr with her Mariah Danu account, but is aware that companies are taking her quote and attributing it wrongly to John Muir.Given variant sources and multiple versions of Muir's writings, it is not surprising to find that Muir actually did originally express the same idea in the famous "hitched" quote in a different way. As originally written, he was nonetheless as eloquent as always, although rather more wordy: Earlier, yet another variation moved the "universe" from the end to the middle: ""Tug on anything in the universe, and you will find it connected to everything else." Designing Functional Streets That Contribute to Our Quality of Life by Margaret A. Kubilins (2000) invisible cords" version of this quote. Any other version which use "tugs" is just a weak paraphrase.

It appears that since then, that idea has morphed in the popular imagination into several (mistakenly) more popular variants listed above. According to Stephen Fox's book, John Muir and His Legacy (p. 291), this is the original version of the famous quote, which Muir wrote in his journal for July 27, 1869. Muir's journals can be found in the John Muir Papers 2 . Fox notes that Muir later revised the wordy sentence to read with the more pithy word " hitched" in his book My First Summer in the Sierra.The earliest we have found with this misquote was published in 1911, in a magazine called "The Fra: A Journal of Affirmation, Volume 7. The correct "Climb the mountains" quotation as published in "Our National Parks" should end in "off like autumn leaves," like this:

Letters of John Muir, Chapter 10 (1923).) This quote is often truncated, removing the last half, italicized here, as if going on vacation to visit a mere playground. But reading the full quote, Muir actually insisted that going to the mountains was only a first step. As Michael Wurtz points out in "What Muir Really Meant by 'the Mountains Are Calling' in Adventure Journal, August 13, 2018, "the shortened quote doesn't fully capture John Muir or his desire to understand and protect California's Yosemite." The reason to go was to study nature, and just as important, work to protect our wilderness areas. Elsewhere in the letter, Muir revealed that he was spending "the season in prosecuting my researches," and hoped to make a scientific contribution from his mountain studies, in winter to "work with my pen." Wurtz points out, "These words reveal a man who saw responsibility and purpose as well as pleasure in the mountains." This essay by Michael Wurtz was first published as How John Muir's Incessant Study Saved Yosemite in The Conversation in 2016. Everything is so inseparably united. As soon as one begins to describe a flower or a tree or a storm or an Indian a chipmunk, up jumps the whole heavens and earth and God Himself in one inseparable glory! Coastal, Nature, and Landscape Photography. Originally from Germany, but raised in the South Bay. I’ve been living in San Pedro for over 20 years, and I still can't stop thinking, what a picturesque town I live in! There is nothing I love more than capturing the beauty that surrounds me and being able to transport others to that same place. It's just too beautiful here not to share it! Sunset is by far my favorite color, as it is ever changing, and it’s also one of my favorite times to photograph. Mother Nature really knows how to put on a show here. I hope you enjoy my photography, and it brings to you the same vibrant mood and energy that I'm feeling while out shooting and enjoying the beauty our peninsula has to offer. When i am not out shooting the sunset you will most likely find me at the beach, strolling our coastline for treasures like sea glass and shells. I am sea glass obsessed and i don't want to stop the hunt, so I have created an ocean inspired jewelry line , to turn some of these local finds into wearable jewelry fit for any mermaid at heart. And then there are quotes from John Muir which are taken out of context, which result in a meaning that is really very different from the point that John Muir was actually trying to make. Here's an example: " The mountains are calling and I must go, and I will work on while I can, studying incessantly."As writer Michael Seeger writes, "Perhaps we all would do well to work on studying nature while we can - and if we don't work to protect our lands, we may not have long to do so."] In fact, there are many variants of the mysteriously popular "tugs" misquote, and none of them are correct. It is a shame the publishers of all these textbooks, books and purportedly scholarly articles did not not correctly verify the quote!

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