November 23 2008
John Muir, American naturalist.
Muir didn’t publish his first book until he was 55, but it was his writing that affected a generation of Americans to develop their relationship with Nature.
"No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of the relations which culture sustains as to wilderness, as that which declares that the world was made especially for the uses of men. Every animal, plant, and crystal controverts it in the plainest terms. Yet it is taught from century to century as something ever new and precious, and in the resulting darkness the enormous conceit is allowed to go unchallenged." —
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