Title
Meeting of California Federation of Women's Clubs. John Muir Gives a Talk. Deplores Loss of California's Beauty Through Commercializing of State.
Files
Kimes Entry Number
A21-a
Original Date
5-22-1909
Publication
San Francisco Examiner
Size/Description
Clipping
Location
CStoC
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Meeting of California Federation of Women's Clubs. John Muir Gives a Talk. Deplores Loss of California's Beauty Through Commercializing of State." (1909). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes, 1986 (Muir articles 1866-1986). 621.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/621
William and Maymie Kimes Annotation
The reporter writes: "The most interesting feature of the day was a talk by John Muir, naturalist. 'I'm glad,' said Mr. Muir, 'that l got to California soon enough to see the State in all its original untrammelled beauty. I have walked five hundred miles through the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys when they were an unbroken mass of golden bloom. I made my bed among the wildflowers where the march of commerce has obliterated God's handiwork. There is not much left to us of beauty because commerce seizes upon all it can reach that is dollarable."'