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It is a shame the publishers of all these textbooks, books and purportedly scholarly articles did not not correctly verify the quote! 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 This variation is found only in secondary sources, not in Muir's published or unpublished writings.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.
Worse, we even found it engraved on granite, and posted on signs at places like zoos and botanical gardens.
This version was also reprinted citing Wolfe without comment in The Contemplative John Muir By Stephen Hatch (2012), pg. 96.)
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. Once again - Muir never used the word "tugs" when writing about the interconnections of things! None of 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 an increasing number of misquotes attributed to John Muir widely circulated on the Internet and even in published books.Wiki Quotes reports a number of additional mis-attributed John Muir quotes. Please don't just repeat these mis-attributed quotes! In some cases, the misquotes are not merely misleading, but completely reverse Muir's meaning.The correct "Climb the mountains" quotation as published in "Our National Parks" should end in "off like autumn leaves," like this: 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. 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:
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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: these variations on the "tugs" theme attributed to John Muir are correct. They are simply paraphrases It appears that since then, that idea has morphed in the popular imagination into several (mistakenly) more popular variants listed above. 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." In fact, there are many variants of the mysteriously popular "tugs" misquote, and none of them are correct.
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