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   Who is John Muir?

   • Muir's biographer, Steven J. Holmes, believes that Muir has become "one of the patron saints of twentieth-century American environmental activity," both political and recreational. As a result, his writings are commonly discussed in books and journals, and he is often quoted by nature photographers such as Ansel Adams.

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   How did John Muir get it?

   • He got it by “going to the mountains.” John Muir (Wikimedia Commons/Library of Congress). Muir’s accounts of his walks on the wild side, into the swamps of Florida, the high sierras of California and among the glaciers of Alaska, made him a superstar in his day.

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   Where did John Muir live?

   • He eventually ventured out west to California, immersing himself in the High Sierra, particularly Yosemite Valley. Inspired by the raw natural beauty of Yosemite Valley, John Muir dedicated his life to advocating for the establishment of a government-sponsored National Parks system.

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   What does John Muir stand for?

   • The name John Muir (1838-1914) has come to stand for the protection of wilderness both in the United States and abroad. This is a collection of his eight most influential works in a single volume. The collection represents the lifelong relationship between the landscape and an inspirational architect of the conservation movement.

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   May 24, 2024 · John Muir (born April 21, 1838, Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland—died December 24, 1914, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, writer, and advocate of U.S. forest conservation, who was largely responsible for the establishment of Sequoia National Park and Yosemite National Park, which are located in California.

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   3 days ago · John Muir Founds the Sierra Club. On May 28, 1892, a group of university professors and interested citizens met in the San Francisco law office of Warren Olney to found what arguably became the nation’s most influential wilderness protection organization, the Sierra Club. Naturalist John Muir, whose popular magazine articles had done much to ...

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   May 12, 2024 · The John Muir Exhibit features extensive materials concerning the life and legacy of John Muir, naturalist, writer, conservationist, and founder of the Sierra Club.

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   1 day ago · McNally, from Concord, California, is a poet and the author of 11 nonfiction books. He won a California Book Awards gold medal in 2018 for “The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America’s Gilded Age,” about a small band of Modoc warriors who left the tribe’s reservation in Oregon in 1872, eventually taking up defensive positions in what is now Lava Beds National Monument ...

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   May 3, 2024 · What do we do with John Muir? For generations, the answer was easy. We worshiped him. Muir was California’s Thoreau, the charismatic prophet preaching that salvation could be found in the...

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   6 days ago · John Muir ( MURE; April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914), also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", was an influential Scottish-American: 42 naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States of America.

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   May 15, 2024 · John John Muir My First Summer in the Sierra John Muir.2009 In the summer of 1869 John Muir Made his first trip to Yosemite. When a friend offered him the chance to accompany a flock of sheep and a shepherd to the high pastures of the Sierra he could not resist. This is his journal. Letters to a Friend John Muir.2019-01-01 As a student at the ...