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About John Muir
Scottish-born American naturalist and writer
John Muir was a Scottish-born American naturalist and writer, active in the 19th and early 20th centuries. He is remembered as an early and influential voice for preserving wilderness in the United States. Muir also worked as an environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, and glaciologist. He is associated with the names “John of the Mountains” and “Father of the National Parks,” titles that reflect his lasting role in shaping wilderness preservation and the language around it.
More from John Muir (102 quotes) →Keep reading John Muir
- “I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really…”John Muir
- “Sequoia seeds have flat wings, and glint and glance in their flight like a boy's kite.”John Muir
- “Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark…”John Muir
- “What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the…”John Muir
More Forests quotes
- “Safeguarding our common home is not only essential to protecting endangered species and preserving old-growth…”Catherine Cortez-Masto
- “But drunkenly, or secretly, we swore,Disciples of that astigmatic saint,That we would never leave the islandU…”Derek Walcott
- “Oil is drowning our oceans and drowning our boreal forests.”Winona LaDuke
More Wilderness quotes
- “It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on…”Tom Bodett
- “...and she would wonder if one can truly stop the inevitable. Was it as Ada had suggested, that we can choose…”Eowyn Ivey
- “I am very much a city boy, and I really don't get out into the countryside or the wilderness that much at all.”Will Poulter
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Books by John Muir
The mountains of California
1894
The story of my boyhood and youth
1913
Steep Trails
2004
John Muir
2000
A thousand-mile walk to the Gulf
1916