We are currently visiting family in California. The other day, my mom was looking for fun places to go when my cousins got out of school. We decided to visit John Muir National Historic Museum in Martinez. I learned that Muir was a Scottish born American naturalist. Muir was instrumental in saving Yosemite Valley & Sequoia National Park. He started the Sierra club, one of the most influential conservation organization in the U.S. There where many places named in his honor such as Muir beach,John Muir trail,Mount Muir,Camp Muir,Muir Collage,and Muir Glacier.
Muir was Dedicated to the preservation of our Natural forests. Muir inspired people with spiritual, and enthusiastic writing. Corresponded friends with President Theodore Roosevelt, Muir petitioned congress, and did the National Park bill. Referred to now as the “Father of National Parks".
Muir's Birthplace,was a 3-story stone house,in Dunbar east of Lothian, Scotland. Muir was the 3rd of 8 children, Muir's boyhood pursuits included scrapping (fighting) on the playground, and hunting four bird’s nests. Muir s Father believed anything distracted from bible study was frivolous. Muir's young, “restless spirit”, made him prone to lashings.
Muir was ambivalent toward Native Americans at first,and viewed some as “lazy & superstitious”. Muir later, had sympathy for them because they were, ”being robbed of their lands and pushed ruthlessly back into narrower and narrower limits by alien races who were cutting off their means of livelihood.” He eventually, praised them, because of there low impact on the wilderness, compared to the high impact the European Americans had on the wilderness.
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