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Show 223, artifice in an i n s i s t e n c e that compromise would v i o l a t e the purity and i n t e g r i t y of transcendent i d e a l s . If Jeanne Carr wished Muir to learn to love a r t as well as Nature, then he would study the a r t of Thoreau. In the final summing up of "Flood Storm," Muir alluded heavily to Thoreau and recorded his allegiance to Thoreauvian ideology. He too would follow the ministry of Nature, yet he didn't know how obvious his debt ought to appear; and he had trouble turning Thoreau's language to his own purposes. Muir supposed that we c o u l d n ' t go to the higher mountains to appreciate wild Nature if we d i d n ' t appreciate i t at home. This storm, witnessed not in the high mountains but in a town only twenty miles and two thousand feet above the Central Valley, was a case in point. Knoxville, Muir claimed, was noted for its ministers, but Muir preferred the apple-room, "a kind of church, free to a l l , where one may enjoy capital sermons on color, fragrance, and sweetness, with very d i r e c t enforcements of their moral and r e l i g i o u s c o r r e l a t i o n s . " This apple-room was part of an old ruined building c a l l e d the Fox Den because red foxes were known to "watch and plan concerning the squirrels and quails that feed beneath the t r e e s . " It was a wild place because i t had returned to the wild s t a t e , like Thoreau's wild apple trees which produced f r u i t in the wilds which must be "eaten in season, accordingly - t h a t i s , out-of-doors." Similarly, Muir's storms could only be absorbed in season, out-of-doors. Ministers, as r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s of society, warn us against |