I'm reading John Muir's Nature Essays. It's good. ecib lent it to me. I think at some point, you run out of ways to describe splendor. Last night I read about a couple of encounters with bears that he had. That was a welcome change of pace. It's interesting, he regularly just slept on the ground alone. I'm surprised that he didn't nosed by bears in the middle of the night. I suppose most animals in those days had very few encounters with humans, which might have made them more cautious. UPDATE: In last night's read, Muir quoted a bear-hunter named Brown that wondered about the same thing. Brown suggested that it was a matter of respect the bears had for slumbering creatures.
Welp, you've inspired a volume of some of Muir's writings to start winging its way through the postal system. Should be here today or tomorrow. I'm between books, so I'll probably start it as soon as it arrives. Thanks! Don't think I would have found him on my own.
You’re a bear hunter and respect is what you come up with? Hmm. What were you saying about people falsely anthropomorphizing our own intelligence on to wild animals? I bet that happens more readily the more time you spend with an animal, like a kind of bias.