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Show 330 these people hope to accomplish by t h e i r journey. Perhaps they have come to the wrong place for obtaining i t . Again, if they are "choked in the sediments of s o c i e t y , " as Muir described them in his essay, then they should not simply join a new social group of t o u r i s t s . If these people were t r u l y seeking their own re-creation, or r e s u r r e c t i o n , if they wanted t h e i r souls to "breathe deep and free in God's shoreless atmosphere of beauty and love," if they wanted to "blend with the landscape, and become part and parcel with Nature," then these moderate people needed a moderate landscape. Why should they come to Yosemite when they were so obviously not ready for i t , when t h e i r experience would only be alienating, when they would believe that such a fierce and gothic place must have been caused by cataclysm? How could they learn to love a Nature which they couldn't get close to? Better they should witness the "annual genesis of plant and insect l i f e " in the Central Valley. As he argued in "Flood Storm," we need not begin reading the Book of Nature with the alpine c a p i t a l s. There was no special reason, thought Muir, to lead tourists to Yosemite. They would get there by v i r t u e of the wide-ranging and already energetic t o u r i s t trade, run by "agents" and industry. Instead, he attempted to say a word for places the t o u r i s t was l i k e l y to miss, places whose interest was too subtle for the t o u r i s t to notice without help. Because he wished to destroy the myth that Nature was |