San Francisco, Muir, and Hetch Hetchy

by kucheka on June 24, 2013

Image: sfpl.org

Nothing dollarable is safe, however guarded…

The few promoters of the present scheme are not unknown around the boundaries of the Park, for some of them have been trying to break through for years. However able they may be as capitalists, engineers, lawyers, or even philanthropists, none of the statements they have made descriptive of Hetch-Hetchy dammed or undammed is true. but they all show forth the proud sort of confidence that comes of a good, sound, substantial, irrefragable ignorance.

– John Muir, 1908

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