Crossing snowy meadows to rivers where ouzels sing in winter. Writing. His dense, splendid prose. Inseparable from his wild dark mountain drawings Born in Dunbar, Scotland, John Muir was thirty-four years old, when he first met tonalist painter William Keith. Born near Aberdeen, Scotland, Keith was also thirty-four, when he arrived at Muir's cabin in Yosemite. [ where every luminous landscape]