John Muir

John Muir was born in Dunbar, Scotland, in 1838, and in 1849 his family emigrated to a farm in Wisconsin, where he worked long hours under a strict father. He invented clocks and other machines and studied at the University of Wisconsin. In 1867 an accident in a factory nearly blinded him; after recovering, he walked about a thousand miles from Kentucky to Florida. In 1868 he reached California and fell in love with the Sierra Nevada, especially Yosemite Valley, where he herded sheep and studied how glaciers had shaped the landscape. His articles and books made the American public aware of the wilderness, and he campaigned to protect it; he helped bring about the creation of Yosemite National Park in 1890. In 1892 he co-founded the Sierra Club and became its first president. In 1903 he camped in Yosemite with President Theodore Roosevelt. His books include The Mountains of California, Our National Parks, Stickeen, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, and Travels in Alaska. He died in Los Angeles in 1914.

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Faith: Raised in a strict religious family; as an adult he often spoke of God in nature. Source: Wikipedia