- This upward-looking view captures a group of tall, dead or dying conifer trees with sparse branches draped in lichens, set against a blue sky. The photograph was taken near the bridge and beaver dam on the West Trail in Farrell’s Marsh Wildlife Area, a natural park in Steilacoom, Washington
Jefferson refused to pin his hopes on the occasional success of honest and unambitious men; on the contrary, the great danger was that philosophers would be lulled into complacence by the accidental rise of a Franklin or a Washington. Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.
Daniel J. Boorstin, The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson (1948)
