tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4902787544710830482.post8371191442686054231..comments2023-10-16T04:46:40.449-07:00Comments on Yosemite Nature Notes Blog: Darwin in YosemitePete Devinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01491398460371898974noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4902787544710830482.post-21375007938291565632012-02-17T13:00:46.580-08:002012-02-17T13:00:46.580-08:00Nicely said. And: Jack London owned a lot in Fore...Nicely said. And: Jack London owned a lot in Foresta, in Yosemite! (It was given to him as a promotion by the developers.) The Wild still calls here.Pete Devinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01491398460371898974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4902787544710830482.post-19981660414236020562012-02-17T08:03:31.452-08:002012-02-17T08:03:31.452-08:00Another contemporary of Darwin and Muir, both in c...Another contemporary of Darwin and Muir, both in calender years as well as in breadth of vision, is Jack London (d. 1916, 2 years after Muir), whose title alone, _The Call of The Wild_ evokes a timeless, primitive lure, a nomadic longing that all the fanaticisms of modern technology cannot quell. <br /><br />The wild still calls eternally, as trees grow for thousands of years while little pine cones called people fruit and decay in mere wisps of a 100 or so years or less. <br /><br />Jack London was unremitting in his assessment of society as fraudulent and needlessly as harsh as extremes of weather and stone for which humans are no match--indictments made clear in _The People of the Abyss_, _The Road_, _The Iron Heel_ and _Martin Eden_. How he struggled to pen a truth that would endure through time...and not in vain, for the worth his words are to me. <br /><br />Yet it is the sheer struggle both to survive and to express truth, the limitless scope of the challenge both nature and society throw in our paths, that create the adventure and drama of living. The gift of a balmy day of tranquil skies and majestic mountains of Yosemite is never for a second taken for granted in such context. To enjoy such a gift is why so many bother to shut down their computers, iphones, tell their bosses "no" for a few days, and go...go to wherever the Wild may call them...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com