Travels
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Tours of Yosemite |
John Muir had a love for nature since his childhood. He was temporarily blinded at a wagon wheel factory, and when he could see again, he appreciated nature's beauty even more than before. Because of this incident, he decided to follow his dreams and explore the study of plants. When he traveled, he drew and documented what he saw in journals. Important places he went in the United States were to the Alaskan glaciers, Cathedral Peak, the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and California. He also did many other trips, trying to take the route least trodden.
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."
-John Muir (My First Summer in the Sierras, p. 110, 1911) "I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found." -John Muir (John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, p. 164, 1938) |
In 1870, John Muir began touring people through Yosemite sharing his passion for nature, in hopes of instilling this love in them. He led many well-known people through Yosemite, including Robert Underwood Johnson who later published Muir's articles.
"In conclusion, John Muir was not a "dreamer," but a practical man, a faithful citizen, a scientific observer, a writer of enduring power, with vision, poetry, courage in a contest, a heart of gold, and a spirit pure and fine." -Robert Underwood Johnson (John Muir as I Knew Him) |