Dam Hetch Hetchy! As well dam for water-tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man. ~John Muir
What do you do when there is no more water to drink?
You dam up the valley. The granite walls and waterfalls, just as magnificent as her sister Yosemite, become the sacrifice for descendants as numerous as the stars that we can sometimes see at night. |
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| Hagar raises her voice in the wilderness, Where most who can help her cannot hear. |
You can destroy in a short span of time what took thousands of years to create. Glaciers sculpting inch by inch the form of |
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| A woman crying her last tears, she speaks with no remarkable faith but because she was born to be seen and heard. |
cathedral arches gracing a rain-streaked mountain. |
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| God preserves her but it is not she he hears. It is the boy, beloved and blubbering behind a bush, |
It is yourself and not your mother, earth, that is saved. If you would only cry out |
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| an ambassador for the future. |
you will remember the beauty you are fighting for. |
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| No holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man:
the heart of a woman. |
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