mountain-bed

Updated: July 6, 2025

It is wonderful that men do not oftener attach their lives to localities of great beauty that, when once deeply penetrated, they will let themselves so easily be borne away by the general stream of things, to live any where and any how. But there is something ludicrous in being the hermit of a show-place, unlike St. Francis in his mountain-bed, where none but the stars and rising sun ever saw him.

Margaret Fuller - Summer on the Lakes, in 1843