"And while we thus contemplate Nature's methods of landscape creation, and, reading the records she has carved on the rocks, reconstruct, however imperfectly, the landscapes of the past, we also learn that as these we now behold have succeeded those of the preglacial age, so they in turn are withering and vanishing to be succeeded by others yet unborn."
John Muir
John Muir's vocation: "saving the American soul from total surrender to materialism" (Muir biographer Donald Worster).
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