This passage describes the beautiful landscapes of California from the beaches to the snow covered mountain ranges.
- Go where you may within the bounds of California, mountains are ever in sight, charming and glorifying every landscape.
- only one valley, and two chains of mountains
- Coast Range on the west side, the Sierra Nevada on the east
- the waters of which have only one outlet to the sea through the Golden Gate
- own climate, soil, and productions - each different landscape; coast, mountains and valleys all have their own climate and produce different things but all in one state.
- Central Valley, glowing golden
- the Sierra should be called not the Nevada, or Snowy Range, but the range of Light
- Sierra range is described as 500 miles long, 70 miles wide, 7000-15000 feet tall.
- Yosemite kind are made up of rocks mountainous in size, partly separated from each other by narrow gorges
- grandest forest trees, the Sequoia, king of conifers, the noble Sugar and Yellow Pines, Douglas Spur
- described animals, reptiles; lizards, large numbers of ants, crows, ravens, rabbits, coyotes.
- Avalanches are described in the High Sierra during the winter. it booms and roars like thunder, and makes a glorious show as it sweeps down the mountain-side
- North half of the range is mostly covered with floods of lava ad dotted with volcanoes and craters.
- Mount Shasta, a colossal volcanic cone
- Mount Whitney only granite
- The great granite domes a mile high, the canos as deep, the noble peaks, the Yosemite valleys, these, and indeed nearly all other features of the Sierra scenery, are glarcier monuments.
- Yonder let us spread broad sheets of soil, that man and the beast may be fed and here pile trains of boulders for pines and giant Sequoias.
I enjoyed reading Muir describe California and how all of the landscape and different climates we have because of the glaciers that were here before. They have given the mountain ranges, valleys, coast, and every beautiful view in between.
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