John Muir
Born: 01-01-1838
John Muir, known as the "Father of the National Parks," was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, and early advocate for wilderness preservation in the United States. Born in 1838, his writings and activism helped establish Yosemite National Park and the Sierra Club. Muir's deep reverence for nature and his detailed observations inspired generations to value and protect the natural world, leaving an enduring environmental legacy.
Book summaries for books written by John Muir
Quotes
The mountains are calling and I must go.
In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.
The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
The sun shines not on us but in us.
Going to the mountains is going home.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.