As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Oom John, was the pet name for John Burroughs by President Theodore Roosevelt, apparently coined on the Yellowstone expedition the two undertook in 1904 to see the "President's Park" for all of it's wonder and glory.
John Burroughs was the preeminent naturalist of the world. Think of him as the Human Society, Henry David Thoreau, PETA and Al Gore all rolled into one description in his absolute standing with the left in America.
Having touched upon the published account of John Burroughs thoughts on the expedition, where he desired to shoot a mountain lion in Yellowstone National Park, and that he considered the bear, lion, bobcat, wolf, coyote and whatever a menace to "good animals which one could have", we now move on to John Burrough's thoughts on Old Faithful and the geysers of Yellowstone which the world over are known and marveled at.
Keep in mind this is the same John Burrough's who after receiving a letter from an animal lover in Vermont, decrying President Roosevelt from shooting an animal in the park, and John was supposed to teach Roosevelt the "love of animals" as John had, that John Burrough's responded that Theodore Roosevelt loved animals as much as John Burroughs did and as much as Vermont bunny hugger did, and that President Roosevelt had just as much right to eat an animal as she had to look at one for her pleasure.
John Burroughs favorite pastime was fishing. Once again, this is from Mr. Yosemite himself and the first environmentalist.
The quote on Yellowstone's geysers:
"The novelty of the geyser region soon wears off. Steam and hot water are steam and hot water the world over, and the exhibition of them here did not differ, except in volume, from what one sees by his own fireside.
The "Growler" is only a boiling teakettle on a large scale, and "Old Faithful" is as if the lid were to fly off, and the whole contents of the kettle should be thrown high into the air. To be sure, boiling lakes and steaming rivers are not common, but the new features seemed, somehow, out of place, and as if nature had made a mistake.
One disliked to see so much good steam and hot water going to waste; whole towns might be warmed by them, and big wheels made to go round. I wondered that they had not piped them into the big hotels which they opened for us, and which were warmed by wood fires."
John Burroughs. Camping with President Roosevelt
You did get that right? The Al Gore of the early 20th century disliked all of this waste of green resources going to waste, and concluded that the Yellowstone geysers should have had pipes sunk in the eruption holes in order to heat the big hotels, so people would be relieved of having to work themselves to death cutting and hauling wood and tending fires.
John Burroughs the environmentalist was quite for invoking the use of Yellowstone for the benefit of humanity. He wanted to kill the predators off and wanted to pipe the geyser steam into hotels.
While Theodore Roosevelt, the hunter, was off with his lunch all alone walking Yellowstone, John Burroughs and the escort part were busy fishing for cutthroat trout in the park and eating them.
Teddy was delighted to just look, as he had hunted the park years before and shot grizzly, elk and deer in it. John was the one fishing.
I place this reality of what an environmentalist is in John Burroughs, and not the psychopathy of today, who in Al Gore terms burns jet fuel and enough electric for his mansion to transport an army and light a town while condemning others, but John Burroughs desired that nature be used wisely for the benefit of humanity. It was not to sit there in a state of rot and decay, but to be utilized as nothing lasts from Yellowstone exploding in cauldera to a meteor blasting seashores in tidal waves.
I will have more on this.
agtG
