Naturalist-writer John Muir was born on this day in 1838! He helped found the Sierra Club and influenced the establishment of what became the US Forest Service, and he was involved in establishing Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Sequoia, and other areas as National Parks. Unfortunately he also wrote racist things, which the Sierra Club has lately addressed in evaluating his legacy. I have Muir's book "A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf," which describes his walk from Indianapolis down into Florida in 1867. He comments on how nature was slowly on the rebound following the environmental damage caused by the Civil War.
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