...completely on their heads, listen to John Muir attack the dam's defenders. "Their arguments," he wrote, "are curiously like those of the devil, devised for...Tuolumne water and Tuolumne scenery going to waste." For Muir and the growing number of Americans who shared his views, Satan's home had become God's own...

...utilitarian "devotees of ravaging commercialism" who desired to dam Hetch Hetchy, Muir charged that their "arguments are curiously like those of the devil...fruit going to waste, so much of the best Tuolumne water."44 While Muir's critique of capitalist exploitation of nature has long been recognized, Jackson...

...them to the Almighty Dollar. . . . Their arguments are curiously like those of the devil, designed for the destruction of the first garden — so much of the very best Eden fruit going to waste." Unfortunately, his vigorous wilderness evangelism failed, and the "devil" gained the Garden of Hetch...