Wander Quotes (1)
I wandered away on a glorious botanical and geological excursion, which has lasted nearly fifty years and is not yet completed, always happy and free, poor and rich, without thought of a diploma or of making a name, urged on and on through endless, inspiring Godful beauty.
[Shortly after leaving university in 1863, without completing a degree, at age 25, he began his first botanical foot journey along the Wisconsin River to the Mississippi.]
[Shortly after leaving university in 1863, without completing a degree, at age 25, he began his first botanical foot journey along the Wisconsin River to the Mississippi.]
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth (1913), 286.
See also: | Beauty (33) | Botany (18) | Diploma (2) | Excursion (2) | Freedom (13) | Geology (109) | Nature (243)
