Painting: National Portrait Gallery (Used with permission)
Reflecting on the life and contributions of John Muir
Born: April 21, 1838
Dunbar,East Lothian, Scotland
Died: December 24, 1914 (aged 76)
Los Angeles, California
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Headlines
Who Was John Muir, Really? – Earth Island Journal – @earthisland
Who was John Muir, Really? – Chaparral Institute
‘It’s just wrong’: Internal fight over Sierra Club founder’s racial legacy roils organization – Politico
John Muir’s legacy questioned as centennial of his death nears
‘Being very frank about our history’: As Sierra Club acknowledges racist past, Indigenous communities look for reckoning – AZ Central @Debkrol
Quotes
The mountains are calling and I must go.
Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools.
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity.
I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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The American Forests
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John Muir Way – Wikipedia
http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/lothian/john-muir-way.shtml
John Muir Way set to generate £40m for communities after opening to the public
John Muir Trail (California)
http://www.rgj.com/longform/life/outdoors/recreation/2014/09/05/john-muir-trail-landscape-never-leave-behind/15113429
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