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CHAPTER 6
Energy and the Environment
O
n March 27, 1868, a twenty-nine-year-old traveler reached San Francisco
on the steamship Nebraska. Soon after his arrival, he asked a local car-
penter for directions for the quickest way out of the city. The workman
replied, “Where do you want to go?” The traveler responded, “Anywhere
that is wild.”
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That brief conversation set the Scottish-born John Muir on a
walk into the wilderness that would make him a leader in the movement to
save America’s environment from exploitation. During the first stage of his
journey, he passed through the Eden-like Santa Clara ...