Emerson and Nature

       Knowing the sadness and frustration I feel when I look at the tall city pine tree at our front curb entirely brown and dead (it all happened in the space of two or three months, inexplicably, while neighbors' pines still thrive), I am the more sensitive to this grand quote I found as a filler in the Sierra Club Schedule.

Said by Ralph Waldo Emerson during a conversation with John Muir:

              "The greatest wonder is that we can see these trees 
                                   and not wonder more."