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Show 26. water, over and over again, shouting to himself, "Take that!" But the kind of discipline he was learning in Georgia and Florida was notably different, because he was appealing to a higher power than self, and attempting to accommodate himself to a still unknown world view which was deeper, larger, and more powerful than one based on self-interest. And in that, there is all the difference. He wasn't conquering himself, but allowing something long dormant in his soul to grow. He was beginning to think of human life, his own included, from an eternal perspective. He was beginning to see his limits as a man. He was learning the humility necessary to any true vision of Nature. LORD MAN The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. - Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf A man might starve in the wilderness. If he did, the blacksmith might have argued, he had only himself to blame. But there was other evidence that men were not the crown of creation. At first Muir was horrified to realize that Nature herself had no need to welcome Man into her own arms. Her alligators were not his friends, and her briars did not allow him to pass unscathed. Her murky pools often held murky dangers for Man, who was apparently not her chosen favorite. The swamps of Florida, for instance, held worse fates than |