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I used to run out on short excursions to Mt. Tamalpais, and I always brought back a lot of flowers--as many as I could carry--and it was most touching to see the quick natural enthusiasm in the hearts of the ragged, neglected, defrauded, dirty little wretches of the Tar Flat waterfront of the city I used to pass through on my way home.... It was a hopeful sign, and made me say: "No matter into what depths of degradation humanity may sink, I will never despair while the lowest love the pure and the beautiful and know it when they see it."
--John Muir, quoted in Tamalpais Walking
by Tom Killion and Gary Snyder
Coulter Pine Toes
Buck at Meadow's Edge
Jack-in-the-Grass
Paper Wasps
Forest Litter
Flame Skimmer
Bolinas Ridge #1
Bolinas Ridge #2
Potrero Meadow
Pennyroyal
Ladybug & Milkweed
Milkweed & Mylitta Crescent
Datura Fruit
Redwoods on Helen Markt Trail
Mud Dauber
Quail Run
Fir in the Fog
Cat Stretch
Fog Drip Puddles
Helleborine Orchid
Coyote on Edge of World
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Bolinas Ridge #3
Bolinas Ridge #3
