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Show 329 routes,* are not aware that they are crossing a grander Yosemite than that to which they are going?" Perhaps Muir suspected that those who were travelling for "peace and health" might find more of those off the tourist's route than on it. Here, he indicated, was a place wild and yet moderate: "Here are no Washington columns, no angular Capitans, to bring doubt upon Ruskin's 'Moderation,'" Fortunately, he said, "our proper arithmetical standards are not outraged by a single magnitude of this moderate, comprehensible hollow." He inadvertently revealed his opinion of the tourist and his "real" needs in this essay. He had told Mrs. Carr that he hoped it would be a "lawful article fit for outsiders." Such a place permitted satisfactions within the reach of the average tourist's sensibilities. Here was a pastoral landscape, "a charming fairy-land of hills, with small, grassy valleys between," where one might "Drift away confidingly into the broad gulf-streams of Nature, helmed only by Instinct." Muir recognized the limits of the average tourist's taste. I don't believe he was satirizing the poor fellow, who only wanted to have fun, relax, and be happy. One need only stand at Glacier Point on a pleasant warm July afternoon, and watch the crowds respond to the overpowering scene - witness their fear, their confusion. They have not come to a place which will make them feel relaxed or Peaceful. Most are awestruck, excitable, unable to sit still or be quiet. It is simply too much. So one might ask what |