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Show 567. and soft carpets of bryanthus, he began to feel through his feet the rhythm of the great heart of Nature. He climbed the mountains and trees. As he looked into the mirror of Lake Tenaya, he seemed to be entering heaven. So on August ninth he is fully alive when he races ahead of the flock and enters Tuolumne Meadows alone. He thinks, "Every feature already seems familiar as if I have lived here always." He is finally home. In the meadows he sees "how ineffably spiritually fine is the morning-glow on the mountain-tops and the alpenglow of evening." He knows that he is in the midst of a Range of Light, where everything is interesting, where one is "constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature." Early in his summer he wondered at the clouds and called them sky mountains, or landscapes in the sky. He watched them grow "as if new worlds were being created." They were "another version of the snowy Sierra," and when they merged with the rocks of the mountains, matter and spirit became one. In the midst of the world of Tuolumne stands Cathedral Peak. One day, shadowed with clouds, it reveals its true nature, "drawing earth and sky together as one." It is Sinai. Even seeing it from a distance, Muir feels "part of wild nature, kin to everything." When he goes to the mountain as he must, on his last excursion of the summer, and finally sits on its summit at noon, he has arrived at the center of the world. As fine as the views from the summit appear, "No feature, |