John Muir
By: Brennan Bailey
Early Life
Accomplishments
He found Sierra Nevada and Yosemite in California the over all beauty is what led him to become a conservationist. Beginning in 1874, a series of articles by Muir entitled "Studies in the Sierra" launched his successful career as a writer. He left the mountains and lived for awhile in Oakland, California. Settling down to some measure of domestic life, Muir went into partnership with his father-in-law and managed the family fruit ranch with great success. In 1901, Muir published a book called Our National Parks, it brought him to the attention of President Theodore Roosevelt and in two years Roosevelt visited Muir in Yosemite. There, they laid the foundation of Roosevelt's innovative and notable conservation programs. He continued to try and preserve and protect the environment until he died on December 21, 1914.
John Muir
John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt
John Muir statue
Quotes
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.