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John Muir is remembered primarily as a no-nonsense conservationist and the founding president of the Sierra Club, but he was also a bold adventurer, a fearless scrambler of peaks, glaciers, and waterfalls whose best-known essay includes a riveting account of nearly falling to his death, in 1872, while ascending California’s Mt. Ritter.
Jon Krakauer • Into the Wild
John Muir famously wrote, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe,”
Paul Rosolie • Mother of God: An Extraordinary Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon
Further reading from *The God of the Garden*: I'd never read anything by Muir before, so this was the perfect primer--a chronological collection of his writings, along with notes on his life. I was stunned when I read about his thousand-mile walk from Indiana to Florida in 1867. I got out a map and retraced it, discovering happily that he would... See more
instagram.com“The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
—John Muir
—John Muir, Travels in Alaska, 1915
Thich Nhat Hanh • Love Letter to the Earth
John Muir (“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe”),
John McPhee • Encounters with the Archdruid: Narratives About a Conservationist and Three of His Natural Enemies
