“No Sierra landscape that I have ever seen holds anything truly dead or dull…everything is perfectly clean and pure and full of divine lessons. This quick, inevitable interest attaching to everything seems marvelous until the hand of God becomes visible; then it seems reasonable that what interests Him may well interest us. When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” (Pg. 153)
Here, John Muir comments on his most celebrated ecological experience, but he describes it in an interconnectedness shaped by God. It’s interesting to see how he describes everything as clean and pure, and full of divinity. Because, the Bible states that God created the heavens and the earth, and it claims many times that God is perfect. So it would only make sense for one who is prefect, to only create perfect things. Muir interestingly enough, comments on God in an interesting way because once he sees God’s hand in the creation, he no longer marvels and is stunned, but finds it reasonable that someone so perfect would be able to do such things. He states it in a manor in which is he not surprised that God would be interesting in the same things the he himself is. And what is real interesting is how Muir connects the whole universe together. Muir makes it seem that it is impossible to separate anything from creation, because it is all tied together and comes from the same source; God.
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