"California" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sunken, hidden bases, some to a level with our standpoint, but none higher. And in the inspiring morning light all are so fresh and rosy-looking that they seem new-born; as if, like the quick-growing crimson snow-plants of the California woods, they had just sprung up, hatched by the warm, brooding, ...
— The Grand Canon of the Colorado • John Muir
... Mace's Beginners History, the California State Text, have been dramatized. The children read the story and study by outline. Then with the help of the teacher the important events ...
— History Plays for the Grammar Grades • Mary Ella Lyng
... ranges from British Columbia through Washington and Oregon, over the mountains of northern California and the Sierras as far south as Mt. Whitney, and, on the Rocky Mountains, through Idaho and Montana to northern Wyoming. It is found at the timber-line of many stations and forms, in exposed situations, flat table-like masses close to the ground. It is a species ...
— The Genus Pinus • George Russell Shaw
... within the Settlement itself to keep its own sense of proportion in regard to the relation of the crowded city quarter to the rest of the country. It was in the spring following this terrible winter, during a journey to meet lecture engagements in California, that I found myself amazed at the large stretches of open country and prosperous towns through which we passed day by day, whose existence ...
— Twenty Years At Hull House • Jane Addams
... who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel. According to Professor Howison, of the California State University, Hebrews ...
— The Devil's Dictionary • Ambrose Bierce
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