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Show 406. appreciate the p l i g h t of a sympathetic i n t e l l i g e n t man whose resolution was s t r o n g , but whose legs were weak. Johnson, who was fifteen years younger than Muir, had a rough time after eight miles of t r a i l l e s s walking i n t o "the w i l d e s t region ever haunted by the God of S i l e n c e . " It was d i f f i c u l t , he claimed, to keep up with Muir, who " i f he ever became t i r e d nobody knew i t . " Nevertheless, he got h i s genteel baptism, and described his own bewilderment in the n a t u r a l canyon of the Tuolumne: The d e t r i t u s of the wall of the gorge lay in a confused mass of rocks, varyin g in s i z e from a market basket to a dwelling house, and the i n t e r s t i c e s were overgrown with t h a t o b j e c t i o n a b l e shrub, the manzanita, the soft leaves of which concealed i t s iron trunk and branches. . . . When a t l a s t I was o b l i g e d to r e s t , Muir, before going on alone for an h o u r ' s e x p l o r a t i o n , sought out for me one of the most b e a u t i f u l spots I have ever seen, where the r u s h i n g r i v e r , s t r i k i n g p o t - h o l e s in i ts granite bed, was thrown up i n t o a dozen water wheels twenty f e e t high! Johnson's a n t h r o p o c e n t r i c view of "confused" rocks, and "objectionable" shrub, t e l l s us about h i s d i s t a n c e from Muir's appreciation of the wholeness of Nature. But the human drama here, his r e l a t i o n s h i p with Muir, the r e l a t i o n s h i p between guide and t o u r i s t , e s t a b l i s h e d t h e i r complementary r o l es in the f i g h t for Yosemite. This a l l i a n c e , between a t e n d e r f o o t s i t t i n g by the r i v er |