John Muir: Save the Redwoods

I was amazed as to how Muir was able to see the path our civilization was heading when it came to the preservation of our greens. The irresponsibility and ignorance of the consequences of every single action that has been done throughout these past hundred years has led to serious consequences. I am not blaming our past generations for what we are suffering, because we have also neglected the responsibility of taking care of our surroundings. I don’t want to blame anyone because we all our guilty, but when Muir refers to the trees as Christ-figures he has certain truth to this claim. In ancient times, the religious practice was to worship nature spirits, whether it was the rain god, the earth, fire… we were connected to interrelated with nature. As we began to develop the separation between nature and society grew. We have diverted our attention that was originally to nature spirits, to a divine yet “human” figure. Trees then became forgiving: "Forgive them; they know not what they do." It’s like he have lost ourselves in this world of greed, capitalism, that we have turned our backs to those who nurtured and fed us in the beginning. It’s like he was saying “they’ll come around.” But when will that time be? How long will they have to suffer for us to realize we have to stop this lifestyle?