Transcript List of Books Written

John Muir
Engineer, naturalist,
writer, botanist, geologist
 By Logan Hickox
Biography facts
 Born: April 21, 1838, Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland
 Death: December 24, 1914(aged 76), Los Angeles,
California, U.S.A.
 Spouse: Louisa Strentzel
 Children: Wanda Hanna, Helen Funk
Childhood Experiences with Nature
 Muir enjoyed most of his time
climbing in trees and studying
birds nests.
 Though his parents were
extremely religious, he would
show signs of his non-interest
in religion and hide from his
abusive father outside and pick
flowers to blow off steam.
Education
 Muir was home-schooled and was taught
religion; by age 11 he could recite the all of
the New Testament and more than half of
the Old Testament.
 At the age of 22, Muir attended University
of Wisconsin-Madison.
 Muir took a number of different botany
classes yet only stayed in college for two
years before being listed as “less-educated
than a first-year student” because of his
unusual selection of courses.
Environmental Experiences
 In the Summer of 1868, Muir, being a
gifted inventor, built a water-powered
mill and a small cabin along Yosemite
Creek, cutting a corner out so that the
creek can run through a section of his
house.
 Muir stayed at the cabin for the
majority of his life because of his
“nature affair” as he called it, with the
geology part of Yosemite specifically.
Preservation and Conservation
 John Muir founded the “Sierra Club,” a
club for mountain and nature lovers.
 In 1903, Muir befriended President
Theodore Roosevelt as Roosevelt had
heard of his Muir’s thoughts on
Yosemite and nature and later
accompanied him on nature trips.
 In 1906 the Sierra Club later succeeded
in their biggest campaign, turning over
Yosemite State Park to Federal hands to
preserve it’s natural beauty.
Theodore Roosevelt(left) and John
Muir(right) in the Yosemite National Park
List of Books Written
 Studies in the Sierra (1950 reprint of serials from 1874)
 Picturesque California (1888–1890)
 The Mountains of California (1894)
 Our National Parks (1901)
 Stickeen
 Stickeen: An Adventure with a Dog and a Glacier (1915)
 Stickeen: The Story of a Dog (1909)
 My First Summer in the Sierra (1911)
 Edward Henry Harriman (1911)
 The Yosemite (1912)
 The Story of My Boyhood and Youth (1913)
 Letters to a Friend (1915)
 Travels in Alaska (1915)
 A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (1916)
 The Cruise of the Corwin (1917)
 Steep Trails (1919)
Tributes and Honors
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California celebrates John Muir Day on April 21 each year
The following places were named after Muir Knoll, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Mount Muir
Muir Glacier, Alaska
Three John Muir Trails (in California, Tennessee, and Wisconsin)
John Muir Wilderness (southern and central Sierra Nevada, California)
Muir Woods National Monument just north of San Francisco
Muir Beach, California
John Muir National Historic Site in Martinez, California
John Muir High School (Pasadena, California)
John Muir Middle School (Los Angeles, California, San Jose, California, San Leandro, California
and Wausau, Wisconsin)
Muirlands Middle School (La Jolla, California)
John Muir Elementary School (Martinez, California; Antioch, California; Merced, California;
Modesto, California; San Bruno, California; Santa Monica, California; Stockton, California;
Hoffman Estates, Illinois; Parma, Ohio; Kirkland, Washington; Madison, Wisconsin; and Portage,
Wisconsin)
John Muir College (a residential college of the University of California, San Diego)
John Muir Country Park, in Dunbar; the John Muir Way in East Lothian
Tributes and Honors cont.
John Muir Medical Center in Brentwood, Concord, and Walnut Creek, California
The main-belt asteroid 128523 Johnmuir
Muir's Peak next to Mount Shasta, California (also known as Black Butte)
Mount Muir (elevation 4688') in Angeles National Forest, California, north of Pasadena[51][52]
Camp Muir in Mount Rainier National Park
School of Life Sciences building at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland
John Muir Park (Green Bay, Wisconsin)
John Muir neighborhood and elementary school in Sooke, British Columbia, Canada.
A section of California State Route 132 between Coulterville and Smith Station at California
State Route 120 has been designated the John Muir Highway. This road roughly follows part of
the route Muir took on his first walk to Yosemite.[53]
 American visual artist, musician and naturalist Wesley Berg released an album entitled "Listen
to John Muir" in July 2010 under the nomme d'arte The Redwoods.
 Muir is featured on a 5-cent stamp and the California state quarter.
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Quotes
 God has cared for these trees, saved them from
drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests
and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
 In every walk with nature one receives far more than he
seeks.
 A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the
roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches
in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the
outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never
cease.
 The power of imagination makes us infinite.
 When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it
hitched to everything else in the universe.
What I Learned
 I learned that one person really
can make a difference in society.
For example, without John Muir
their would be no Yosemite
National Park because it would
have been destroyed.
 John Muir has published over 300
articles and 12 books.
 The Sierra Club now has more
than 1.3 million members.