John muir was known as “the father of all national parks” and supported the national park idea. John was the one of the reasons yosemite is a national park. He also toured the forests with teddy roosevelt. He is one of the reason we have national parks. He figured out how the national park yosemite was created. Muirs love of nature was sparked by a factory accident that temporarily blinded him. After the accident he decided to walk from indiana to florida. he decided to learn as much about nature as he could. Muir said “he was enrolled in the university of nature.” it was 1868 when he first visited yosemite and he decided to come there the next year. In 1869 he decided to move to yosemite taking a job as a shepherd. After being a shepherd he decided to help build a sawmill near …show more content…
After he wrote about glaciers he found out sheep (witch muir called the “hoofed locust”) were destroying the sierra. he (with help from theodore roosevelt and a three night camping trip) made yosemite a national park. That then kept the sheep off of the national park. Witch in a chain of events made the sawmill go out of business so muir got his revenge too. In 1873 He married Louie Wanda Strentzel and turned her family's farm in Martinez, California, into a profitable orchard business. After 10 years on the farm the forests called to him. with his wife Louie he went back to yosemite with his wife. scared of bears and her slow pace he would not bring her along again. But he continued to do work.
Muir visited the future national parks in his lifetime petrified forest,grand canyon,glacier bay,mount rainier,general grant ,and sequoia. In 1901, Muir published Our National Parks the book that got the attention of President Theodore Roosevelt. muir helped found the sierra club. in Muir's words, “do something for wildness and make the mountains glad.” Muir served as the Club's president until his death in
David Jason Muir was born on the 8th November 1973 in Syracuse, New York USA. He is known to the world as a television reporter and anchorman of the ABC Show “ABC World News Tonight with David Muir”. His career as a reporter earned him several awards, which includes an honorary award, which he received for his reports of the assassinations of Israel`s PM, from Radio-Television News Directors Association.
John Muir: John Muir also known as "John of the Mountains", was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States and was the founder of the Sierra Club.
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explore the area. Then he got a job as guide to the Yosemite. Muir quickly
Not many people know of the used-to-be 150-mile excursion that the Glen Canyon had to offer. Not many people know how to sail a raft down a river for a week. Not many people know how to interact with nature and the animals that come with it. We seem to come from a world that is dependent on time and consumed in money. Edward Abbey is what you would call an extreme environmentalist. He talks about how it was an environmental disaster to place a dam in which to create Lake Powell, a reservoir formed on the border of Utah and Arizona. He is one of the few that have actually seen the way Glen Canyon was before they changed it into a reservoir. Today, that lake is used by over a million people, and is one of the biggest recreation hot spots in the western United States.
John Muir believed that for the future of America that the natural world should be protected. Muir felt that the environment of much of the United States was not protected properly and the locations that were protected were not managed adequately. Muir felt that Americans had much to gain from the protection of their national resources and park lands. In John Muir’s book Our National Parks, written in 1901 he states: “Awakening from the stupefying effects of the vice of over-industry and the deadly apathy of luxury, they are trying as best they can to mix and enrich their own...
He believes that the wilderness has helped form us and that if we allow industrialization to push through the people of our nation will have lost part of themselves; they will have lost the part of themselves that was formed by the wilderness “idea.” Once the forests are destroyed they will have nothing to look back at or to remind them of where they came from or what was, and he argues everyone need to preserve all of what we have now.
Some of the things he did for the park was helping preserve the forest. Most of his writings came from the forest and all of its beauty, enthusiasm, and spiritual quality that just filled him with so much joy. He herded sheep in his first summers at Yosemite.(Tolan,Sally,Page 24) He became a guide and lead tours through Yosemite and knew the area like he lived there for 10 years. John often left the tourists and went for a hike and went for a hike at Vernal Fall.(Wadsworth,Ginger, Page 56) John Muir has a Redwood forest in San Francisco. Many people love Muir's love for exploration, and knowledge of nature. He continued his studies of glaciers, and as he continued he came to the sense that the glaciers were the reason for the carved out valleys and the canyons of Yosemite. Though other scientists didn't believe him he kept pushing for more
While this was most likely not his intention, his rhetoric would lay the foundation of what the average American expected to experience, and see, when out in nature. Muir’s definition of wilderness was grounded in the most aesthetically pleasing a specific environment could be, not human presence; although humans do have a habit of natural destruction. While discussing the found in Black Hills Reserve he includes arnica as one of plants, which, “Give abundance of color and make all the woods a garden” (Muir). Interestingly, Arnica, also known as Wolfsbane, is an invasive species brought over from Northern Europe. To Muir the components of a wilderness, “as pure as paradise” do not necessarily have to be traditionally native as long as it is beautiful. By placing this emphasis on beauty in the wilderness the American people expected to see a beautiful wilderness, although in reality these two are not mutually exclusive. Muir supported a form of natural improvement in which alterations to the natural world are made, but not with any economic value in mind. Interestingly, Muir suggests that our wildness is a commodity to which, we are glad to see how much of even the most destructible kind is still unspoiled”. (Muir) By the time the National Park Service was founded in 1916 the American people wanted to be entertained by, and in, nature
When thinking about nature, Hans Christian Andersen wrote, “Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” John Muir and William Wordsworth both expressed through their writings that nature brought them great joy and satisfaction, as it did Andersen. Each author’s text conveyed very similar messages and represented similar experiences but, the writing style and wording used were significantly different. Wordsworth and Muir express their positive and emotional relationships with nature using diction and imagery.
John Muir and William Wordsworth use diction and tone to define nature as doing a necessary extensile of life. Throughout Muir’s and William’s works of literature they both describe nature as being a necessary element in life that brings happiness, joy, and peace. Both authors use certain writing techniques within their poems and essays to show their love and appreciation of nature. This shows the audience how fond both authors are about nature. That is why Wordsworth and Muir express their codependent relationship with nature using diction and tone.
John Muir has a very strong relationship with nature as said in his story named The Calypso Borealis. John Muir states in the fifth paragraph that he does not know how long he spent next the flower.In the second
Man and Nature were always linked together right from the beginning of time. Men depend for their livelihood on nature and this is why people give a lot of importance to nature ultimately leading to the protection of nature by men. The common understanding of men is that they protect nature but on the other hand nature also shapes the life of man so man and nature stands at an equal position. Ralph Waldo Emerson born on 25th May, 1803 and died on 27th April and Henry David Thoreau who was born on 12th July 1817 and died in 6th May 1862 were both born in Massachusetts were friends and Thoreau was influenced by Emerson. Nature according to Emerson should be given importance since man has to seek for answers from nature and that no matter how intelligent a man may be yet it is on nature that he will have to depend but Thoreau has a different opinion to it and he thinks that nature is important but man should be given equal importance.
“I am forced to admit that no one thing gives me such unalloyed pleasure as simply being in the mountains,” Snyder wrote to Whalen at the time. “My rucksack and boots hang accusingly on the wall.” Consequently, he ended up working in a logging camp in eastern Oregon that summer and worked on a trail crew in Yosemite during the summer of ’55, after finishing up his graduate studies in East Asian Languages at UC Berkeley.