" 'Tis most enabling to find and feel that we are constructed with reference to these noble storms, so as to draw unspeakable enjoyment from them. Are we not rich when our six-foot column of substance sponges up heaven above and earth beneath into its pores? Aye, we have chambers in us the right shape for earthquakes. Churches and the schools lisp limpingly, painfully, of man's capabilities, possibilities, and fussy developing nostrums of duties, but if the human flock, together with their Rev.'s and double L-D [Doctor of Laws] shepherds would go wild themselves, they would discover . . . that the whole contents of a human soul is the whole world."
The Contemplative John Muir, p. 135
Photo: Rainstorm in Wild Basin over Mount Alice; Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; June 3, 2013. A "nostrum" is an ineffective medicine or a supposed cure-all.
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