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John Muir in Chicago.

buy Ivermectin for humans John Muir, at the age of 29, not having much in his daily life to hold him back, set off from Indianapolis southward to see what he called the “hot gardens of the sun.”  He walked through Kentucky, over the Smoky Mountains into Georgia, and down to the west coast of Florida, where he got a boat to Cuba.  He hoped to make it to South America and up the Amazon, but in the end he decided to go to California, where, of course, he found some things to detain his interest.  Before departure he had a few hours in Chicago, which he spent in a desperate botanizing:

purchase Seroquel visa without prescription I did not find many plants in her tumultuous streets; only a few grassy plants of wheat, and two or three species of weeds, — amaranth, purslane, carpet-weed, etc. — the weeds, I suppose, for man to walk upon, the wheat to feed him.  I saw some green algae, but no mosses.  Some of the latter I expected to see on wet walls, and in seams on the pavements.  But I suppose that the manufacturers’ smoke and the terrible noise are too great for the hardiest of them.  I wish I knew where I was going.  Doomed to be ‘carried of the spirit into the wilderness,’ I suppose.  I wish I could be more moderate in my desires, but I cannot, and so there is no rest.

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