Blog #13 Muir

I think Muir is voicing a lot of extreme and one sided opinions. In some ways I do agree with him though. I agree that some things are “beautiful” even if they don’t seem it. Many dangerous animals are beautiful or interesting, and not evil. On a side note, that actually reminds me of Patricia Smith’s poetry. I find it very ugly and harsh, and that harsh, grotesque way about her writing is what makes it beautiful and honest. In the same way I think that all things have a purpose. I don’t think that Muir disagrees with this; he just believes that things have their own purpose, and it is not to serve humans. I can also agree with that. However, he said at one point that people look down on others who sympathize with creatures other than humans. I just don’t think that’s true anymore. I think if you looked down on an animal people would look down on you, no matter how ugly it is. There is also a line where he states that our earth has “made many a successful journey around the heavens ere man was made” and if he is talking about the Christian God in this story, which I believe he is intending to, he would know that God made the world in seven days and humans on the 6th day. That line kind of threw me off as to if he really had a stable argument since a lot of his rant was about how men are trying to play God and decided what God is like. Those are some pretty radical statements.