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John Muir
John Muir, also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States.
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science · Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914) · botanist · geologist · explorer · inventor · essayist · writer · autobiographer · preservationist · mountaineer · glaciologist · also John Muir, J. Muir, Muir
Born 21 April 1838 · Died 24 December 1914 · Q379580
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2026· 6 entries
“regardless of color, or race”
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“most ugly, and some of them altogether hideous”
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“This business of writing books is a long, tiresome, endless job”
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“I never for a moment thought of giving up God”
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“This affliction has driven me to the sweet fields. God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons”
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2020· 2 entries
The Sierra Club wrote:Muir was not immune to the racism peddled by many in the early conservation movement
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In light of the movement to remove Confederate monuments across the country, Michael Brune, the executive director of the Sierra Club, reflected on Muir's complex and controversial legacy and announced that the club woul
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2019· 1 entry
The University of the Pacific was given full ownership of the Muir collection, which had been expanding over the years
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2015· 1 entry
Became the first Black president of the Sierra Club board, stated that the contents and framing of Muir in Brune's post "are a misrepresentation"
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2013· 1 entry
The first John Muir Day was celebrated in Scotland, which marked the 175th anniversary of his birth, paying homage to the conservationist
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2006· 3 entries
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted John Muir into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts
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Awarded California Hall of Fame (2006).
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Was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
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2003· 1 entry
As an interpretative centre focused on Muir's work
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1998· 1 entry
Was part of the "Celebrate the Century" series, and showed Muir in Yosemite Valley, with the inscription "John Muir, Preservationist"
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1988· 1 entry
Created John Muir Day, effective from 1989 onward
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1964· 1 entry
Was designed by Rudolph Wendelin, and showed Muir's face superimposed on a grove of redwood trees, and the inscription, "John Muir Conservationist"
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1914· 7 entries
Died 1914-12-24.
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“Original: «Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.”
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“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
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“Original: «The mountains are calling and I must go.”
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“I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot. As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.”
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“The whole wilderness in unity and interrelation is alive and familiar … the very stones seem talkative, sympathetic, brotherly. … No particle is ever wasted or worn out but eternally flowing from use to use.”
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“Original: «The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
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1906· 1 entry
Congress transferred the Mariposa Grove and Yosemite Valley to the park
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1903· 1 entry
President Theodore Roosevelt accompanied Muir on a visit to Yosemite
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1899· 1 entry
Muir accompanied railroad executive E
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1893· 1 entry
Where he met one of his Dunbar schoolmates and visited the places of his youth that were etched in his memory
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1892· 1 entry
The first meeting of the Sierra Club was held to write articles of incorporation
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1890· 1 entry
The US Congress passed a bill that essentially followed recommendations that Muir had suggested in two Century articles, "The Treasures of the Yosemite" and "Features of the Proposed National Park", both published in 189
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1888· 1 entry
After seven years of managing the Strentzel fruit ranch in Alhambra Valley, California, his health began to suffer
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1880· 3 entries
After he returned from a trip to Alaska, Muir and Strentzel married
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And in 1881 was with the party that landed on Wrangel Island on the USS Corwin and claimed that island for the United States
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In 1880, after he returned from a trip to Alaska, Muir and Strentzel married.
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1879· 1 entry
And were the first Euro-Americans to explore Glacier Bay
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1878· 3 entries
In 1878, when he was nearing the age of 40, Muir's friends "pressured him to return to society".
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Muir served as a guide and artist for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey on the survey of the 39th parallel across the Great Basin of Nevada and Utah
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When he was nearing the age of 40, Muir's friends "pressured him to return to society"
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1876· 1 entry
The American Association for the Advancement of Science published Muir's paper on the subject
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1873· 1 entry
And 1874, he made field studies along the western flank of the Sierra on the distribution and ecology of isolated groves of Giant Sequoia
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1872· 3 entries
“No amount of word-making will ever make a single soul to”
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And become the principal of the California State Normal School (now San Jose State University), Muir gave several lectures at the normal school, and Allen joined Muir in several mountain hikes
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"No amount of word-making will ever make a single soul to 'know' these mountains
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1871· 2 entries
After Muir had lived in Yosemite for three years, Emerson, with several friends and family, arrived in Yosemite during a tour of the Western United States
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Muir discovered an active alpine glacier below Merced Peak, which helped his theories gain acceptance
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1864· 2 entries
And spent the spring, summer, and fall exploring the woods and swamps, and collecting plants around the southern reaches of Lake Huron's Georgian Bay
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Left Wisconsin to begin exploring the Canadian wilderness and, while there, began corresponding with her about his activities
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1863· 1 entry
His brother Daniel left Wisconsin and moved to Southern Ontario (then known as Canada West in the United Canadas), to avoid the draft during the US Civil War
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1849· 1 entry
Muir's family immigrated to the United States, starting a farm near Portage, Wisconsin, called Fountain Lake Farm
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1838· 1 entry
Born 1838-04-21.
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