John Muir

John Muir


Biography Report

by Ginger Wadsworth


The story takes place at Yosemite National Park from 1838-1914.  John Muir

was a botanist, geologist, and writer.  He had overcome earthquakes, glaciers,

and he climbs mountains.  John Muir had impressed by overcoming all the

dangers like animals.  He was an expert on wilderness.  He knows survival

skills to stay alive.  He studies nature and he writes about nature.  He made a

national park system as well as the Sierra Club.  He knew that the Native

Americans called the place "Pohono," or spirit of the puffing wind.  At first he

called it a "dainty little fall...only about fifteen or twenty feet high."  John

laughed after discovering that Bridalveil Fall drops 620 feet.  He writes all

kinds of quotes about nature, for example: "I am captive, I am bound.  Love of

pure unblemished Nature seems to overmaster and blur out of sight all other

objects and considerations." John works in his "scribble den."  John had t
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