Earth Planet Universe

John Muir, EARTH, PLANET, UNIVERSE. “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe”. My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir, 1911. “When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty”. Travels in Alaska by John Muir, 1915
Those forest reserves are not merely for the convenience and benefit of the people near them, but they are the property of the nation and for its greatest good. It is unreasonable to suppose that they should be destroyed or imperiled for any local convenience, as a mere present to men engaged in one local industry.  THEODORE ROOSEVELT
'I’m truly sorry Man’s dominion Has broken Nature’s social union, An’ justifies that ill opinion Which makes thee startle At me, thy poor, earth-born companion An’ fellow-mortal! ' From To a Mouse, Robert Burns
PANEL 2 – JOHN MUIR, A GUDE FECHTER

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