Sublime

We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men. . . . In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.

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And it was on those highways and bridges—the creations of a single individual, public works sprung from that individual’s private creative vision, financed and approved as a result of his unique political genius, driven to completion by his savage drive and unswerving will—that the effect of that single individual’s policies on the 12,000,000

The structure might appear flimsy but it was shored up with buttresses of the strongest material available in the world of politics: public opinion. A Governor—even a Governor who hated the man who dwelt within that structure—would pull it down at his own peril.

Stephens was the president of the railroad, which was a wholly American-owned stock company with its main office in the old Tontine Building on Wall Street. The capitalization was a million dollars.

Standing astride its whole southern border, Crotona Park provided East Tremont with a natural shield, a comfortably wide—and, at that time, heavily policed—dike against the decay flooding up from the south. Its brunt broken on the park’s slopes, the decay oozed around its sides, searching for an opening into the clean streets beyond, but against it

There are no individuals. There aren’t even separate species. Everything in the forest is the forest.

“In the densest places of man, humanity most easily breaks down,”