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My First Summer in the Sierra · Theme
Timelessness and Eternal Present
How My First Summer in the Sierra develops Timelessness and Eternal Present.
Muir often loses track of time in the mountains, feeling that 'life seems neither long nor short' and that each day opens and closes 'like a flower, noiseless, effortless,' suggesting a state of being beyond ordinary temporal concerns.
Where it surfaces
- To the High Mountains
Muir reflects on the ancient ice-sculpted rocks and the juniper living for 'perhaps more than a thousand years,' evoking a sense of deep time.