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Author:  Winfield Clark Posted:  11/15/04; 9:53:52 PM Topic:  What The Bear Eats.mp3 Msg#:  4388 (in response to 4381) Prev/Next:  4387/4389 Reads:  1113

Here is the passage from John Muir:

"To him almost everything is food, except granite. Every tree helps to feed him, every bush and herb, with fruits and flowers, leaves and bark; and all the animals he can catch -- badgers, gophers, ground-squirrels, lizards, snakes, etc., and ants, bees, wasps, old and young, together with their eggs and larvae and nets. Craunched and hashed, down all go into his marvellous stomach, and vanish as if cast into a fire. What digestion! A Sheep or a wounded deer or a pig he eats warm, about as quickly as a boy eats a buttered muffin;"

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