John Muir: "The Father of the National Parks"
John Muir preserved many well known parks all over the country such as Yosemite, Sequoia Forest, Mount Rainier, Petrified Forest, and the Grand Canyon. He is well-known for land he has preserved as well as having published over 300 articles, and 12 books about his wilderness adventures. Through this, he has influenced people's appreciation of nature and the National Parks at a time when they were just getting started. Because of this, he is known as "The Father of the National Parks."
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"If you think about all the gains our society has made from independence to now, it wasn't government. It was activism. People think, 'Oh, Teddy Roosevelt established Yosemite National Park, what a great president.' False. It was John Muir who invited Roosevelt out, and then convinced him to ditch his security and go camping. It was Muir, an activist, a single person."
-Patagonia Founder an Outdoor Enthusiast: Yvon Chouinard ("The Revolution Starts at the Bottom" from March/April 2004 Sierra Magazine)
"John Muir has been a role model to generations of Californians and to Conservationists around the world. He taught us to be active, and to enjoy, but at the same time protect, our parks, our beaches, and our mountains."
-California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (March 29, 2004)
-Patagonia Founder an Outdoor Enthusiast: Yvon Chouinard ("The Revolution Starts at the Bottom" from March/April 2004 Sierra Magazine)
"John Muir has been a role model to generations of Californians and to Conservationists around the world. He taught us to be active, and to enjoy, but at the same time protect, our parks, our beaches, and our mountains."
-California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (March 29, 2004)
"It is not a stretch to say that by transforming the Sierra Nevada from a little known if spectacular place to an icon, he [John Muir] helped create the formula by which future wilderness advocates would build support to protect ... parks and monuments."
-Carl Zichella "[John Muir] was emphatically a good citizen. Not only are his books delightful, not only is he the author to whom all men turn when they think of the Sierras and northern glaciers, and the giant trees of the California slope, but he was also - what few nature lovers are - a man able to influence contemporary thought and action on the subjects to which he had devoted his life. He was a great factor in influencing the thought of California and the thought of the entire country so as to secure the preservation of those great natural phenomena - wonderful canyons, giant trees, slopes of flower-spangled hillsides - which make California a veritable Garden of the Lord." -Theodore Roosevelt (From Outlook, vol. 109, pp. 27-28, January 16, 1915) |