Bliss by Harry Bliss for August 14, 2020

“ In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”

So where’s some sand? That waterfall makes me want to…

“…now that we cleared those dirty lazy Indians out if it.”

Those guys really get around.

Nice spot. We will camp here for the night .

At least this year they get to travel to nice places, as opposed to many of us!

Yo, Semites!

Even though he was atheist, Muir would have called it a Cathedral of Nature.

Who mowed the grass? Nice job.

While I am thankful for the end result (our National Parks are a wonder – and would be more so if we stopped drilling and logging them) ,but the American conservation movement of the early 20th century was driven by people like Muir and T. Roosevelt, and the purpose was to deny access to the people – not only Native Americans, but also blacks & poor whites – who were eking out an existence from the fringes of the wilderness, so it could be preserved – as a playground for rich trophy-hunters like TR.

For more on this, read Jacoby, Karl, Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University Of California Press, 2001

I like your cat dog friendship themes, a breath of fresh air on an old subject.

I should think they would be more interested in what John Muir’s dog or cat would have called it.

Sometimes I forget to say how much I like this strip, but I REALLY like this strip.

Serenity now.

Oh, are we talking about crusty old bigot, John Muir, that the Sierra Club recently publicly distanced itself from?

Love the illustrations in this comic strip!!