Angels and Men/Quartet, featured in American Craft, and in the Craft In America exhibit Looming Election, is inspired by a quote from John Muir’s journal.

“The perfection of beauty in these lilies of the wilderness is a never-ending source of admiration and wonder … So extravagant is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees, but as far as I have seen, man alone, and the animals he tames, destroy these gardens.”

— from John Muir’s journal, My First Summer in the Sierras