# Timelessness and Eternal Present in My First Summer in the Sierra

> Theme guide for My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir.

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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_first_summer_in_the_sierra_se/chapters/iv-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.

## Links

- HTML: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_first_summer_in_the_sierra_se/themes/time_and_eternity
- Themes index: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_first_summer_in_the_sierra_se/themes