Joh Muir, “patron saint of the American wilderness,” d Dec 24 1914. After recovering from a terrible accident he determined to devote his life to the study of nature and the “godful wilderness.” He settled in Yosemite where he spent months communing with the rocks, trees, cliffs.
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He helped establish Yosemite and Yellowstone as national parks and became a forerunner of the modern environmental movement. “Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.”
