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Show 365 be rendered incapable of pure love of anything." The men were beaten down by too much business, and had a "sort of Uriah Heep manner." Although he did not oppose industry as an admirable human t r a i t , he was appalled by the blind or joyless work which produced "humble" tradesmen and dutiful husbands. The Douglas squirrel was the very image of industry and energy. but of a cheerful s o r t : a harvester who was also a planter. So too, the bee, the great p o l l i n a t o r , became Muir's image of the industrious gardener of flowers. Industry ought to produce abetter, more peaceful l i f e . The b e e ' s kind of agriculture made more flowers, not fewer. Muir wrote to Jeanne Carr t h a t his " l a s t efforts were on the preservation of the Sierra f o r e s t s , and the wild and trampled conditions of our flora from a bee's point of view." He would use the symbolic s t r a t e g y which he had f i r s t used to emphasize the pastoral aspect of tourism. It is the same point of view we find in modern books which attempt an ecological perspective, for instance "Red Winged Blackbird" in An Island Called California, or Track of the Grizzly, which presents the reader with the Yellowstone ecosystem from the bear's Point of view. Humans, l i k e the g r i z z l y , are used to a view from the top of the food pyramid, but what does a bee see? What i s i t like to l i v e on flowers without destroying them? Muir was not simply i n t e r e s t e d in the "original" view of the State, but what men had done to i t . Like Dasmann's Bjgtruction of California, Muir's essay was a vision of progress from an ecological perspective. "When California was wild, |