Download or read book A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf Illustrated Edition written by John Muir and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "JOHN MUIR, Earth-planet, Universe."—These words are written on the inside cover of the notebook from which the contents of this volume have been taken. They reflect the mood in which the late author and explorer undertook his thousand-mile walk to the Gulf of Mexico. No less does this refreshingly cosmopolitan address, which might have startled any finder of the book, reveal the temper and the comprehensiveness of Mr. Muir's mind. He never was and never could be a parochial student of nature. In September 1867, Muir undertook a walk of about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from Kentucky to Florida, which he recounted in his book A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. He had no specific route chosen, except to go by the "wildest, leafiest, and least trodden way I could find."
Download or read book The Story of My Boyhood and Youth written by John Muir and published by Binker North. This book was released on 1913 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Muir (1838-1914), whose writings about the natural world have shaped the conservation and environmental movements for more than a century, wrote this autobiographical account near the end of his life about his childhood in Dunbar, Scotland, his immigration to America (1849), his adolescence on a pioneer farmstead near Kingston, Wisconsin, and his student years at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth reveals the evolution of Muir's scientific curiosity and the beginnings of his reverential attitude towards nature. Treating his encounters with wildlife as high adventure, he gives especially informed attention to bird life in both Scotland and Wisconsin.
Download or read book The Writings of John Muir The story of my boyhood and youth written by John Muir and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Collected works of John Muir The Story of My Boyhood and Youth My First Summer in the Sierra The Mountains of California Stickeen and others Illustrated written by John Muir and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Muir was one of the creators of the United States national park system and protected nature reserves. His love of nature and activism preserved the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park, and other wilderness areas for generations. He wrote prolifically on man’s duty to care for the environment. His works continue to inspire ordinary people as well as presidents and politicians to love nature and to strive to protect it. Our National Parks, Stickeen, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Yosemite, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, The Mountains of California, Steep Trails. The Grand Cañon of the Colorado, The Story of My Boyhood and Youth.
Download or read book A Thousand mile Walk to the Gulf written by John Muir and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: /MUIR JOHN Originally published in 1916, this book is largely comprised of lightly edited diary entries Muir made during his memorable 1867 trek from Kentucky to Florida. Mixing deft observations of the human condition with lyrical responses to the beauties of the natural world, Muir creates his own stirring "song of the Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book The Story of My Boyhood and Youth And a Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf Classic Reprint written by John Muir and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, And, a Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf Longest is the life that contains the largest amount of time-effacing enjoyment of work that is a steady delight. Such a life may really comprise an eternity upon earth. These words of John Muir I noted down after one of our last conversations. To few men was it given to realize so completely the element of eternity of time-efi'acing enjoyment in work as it was to John Muir. The secret of it all was in his soul, the soul of a child, of a poet, and of a strong man, all blended into one. Only such a one would have mounted the top of a pine tree in a gale - swept forest in order to enjoy the better the passionate music of the storm, and then tell how we all travel the milky way together, trees and men, but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, he wrote, that trees are travelers in the ordinary sense. They make many journeys, not exten sive ones it is true; but our own little journeys, away and back again, are only little more than tree-wavings many of them not so much. But the play of his rich imagination did not pause with the adventure in the tree-top. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book John Muir The Story of My Boyhood and Youth Letters to a Friend written by John Muir and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "John Muir: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth & Letters to a Friend (Autobiography With Original Drawings)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Story of My Boyhood and Youthreveals the beginnings of the forming of Muir's special relation towards nature. He considered the encounters with nature as quite an adventure and at first, paid special attention to bird life. John Muir understood that to discover truth, he must turn to what he believed were the most accurate sources. In his autobiographical account, The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, he writes that during his childhood, his father made him read the Bible every day. Muir eventually memorized three-quarters of the Old Testament and all of the New Testament. In his autobiography, written near the end of his life, he described his life from childhood years in Scotland and moving to America to student years in Wisconsin. When he was a student in the University of Wisconsin he was a frequent caller at the house of Dr. Ezra S. Carr. The kindness shown him there, and especially the sympathy which Mrs. Carr, as a botanist and a lover of nature, felt in the young manes interests and aims, led to the formation of a lasting friendship. He regarded Mrs. Carr, indeed, as his "spiritual mother," and his letters to her in later years are the outpourings of a sensitive spirit to one who he felt thoroughly understood and sympathized with him. John Muir (1838-1914) was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, have been read by millions. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is a prominent American conservation organization.
Download or read book John Muir Nature Writings LOA 92 written by John Muir and published by Library of America. This book was released on 1997-04-22 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as the "Father of the National Parks," John Muir wrote about the American West with unmatched passion and eloquence—as seen in this stunning, one-volume collection In a lifetime of exploration, writing, and passionate political activism, John Muir became America's most eloquent spokesman for the mystery and majesty of the wilderness. A crucial figure in the creation of our national parks system and a far-seeing prophet of environmental awareness who founded the Sierra Club in 1892, he was also a master of natural description who evoked with unique power and intimacy the untrammeled landscapes of the American West. Nature Writings collects Muir's most significant and best-loved works in a single volume, including: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth (1913), My First Summer in the Sierra (1911), The Mountains of California (1894) and Stickeen (1909). Rounding out the volume is a rich selection of essays—including "Yosemite Glaciers," "God's First Temples," "Snow-Storm on Mount Shasta," "The American Forests," and "Save the Redwoods"—that highlight various aspects of his career: his exploration of the Grand Canyon and of what became Yosemite and Yellowstone national parks, his successful crusades to preserve the wilderness, his early walking tour to Florida, and the Alaska journey of 1879. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
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Download or read book A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf written by John Muir and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-19 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Muir April 21, 1838 - December 24, 1914) also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks," was an influential Scottish-American 42 naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, glaciologist and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays, and books describing his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada, have been read by millions. His activism has helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and many other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he co-founded, is a prominent American conservation organization. The 211-mile (340 km) John Muir Trail, a hiking trail in the Sierra Nevada, was named in his honor. Other such places include Muir Woods National Monument, Muir Beach, John Muir College, Mount Muir, Camp Muir, Muir Grove, and Muir Glacier. In Scotland, the John Muir Way, a 130-mile-long route, was named in honor of him. In his later life, Muir devoted most of his time to the preservation of the Western forests. As part of the campaign to make Yosemite a national park, Muir published two landmark articles on wilderness preservation in The Century Magazine, "The Treasures of the Yosemite" and "Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park"; this helped support the push for U.S. Congress to pass a bill in 1890 establishing Yosemite National Park.The spiritual quality and enthusiasm toward nature expressed in his writings has inspired readers, including presidents and congressmen, to take action to help preserve large nature areas.
Download or read book The Writings of John Muir written by William Frederic Badè and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf Illustrated Edition written by John Muir and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-03 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In John Muir's 'A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (Illustrated Edition)', readers are taken on a lyrical journey through the American South during the post-Civil War era. Muir's descriptive prose and keen observations of nature immerse readers in a lush landscape teeming with wildlife and botanical wonders. This reimagined edition features stunning illustrations that complement Muir's vivid storytelling and offer a visual feast for readers. The book serves not only as a travelogue but also as a tribute to the beauty of the natural world and the importance of preserving it. Muir's poetic language and deep connection to the environment elevate this work to a masterpiece of American literature. John Muir, a renowned naturalist and conservationist, embarked on this epic journey to the Gulf of Mexico as a young man seeking adventure and solace in nature. His experiences along the way inspired his lifelong dedication to environmental advocacy and shaped his legacy as a pioneer in wilderness preservation. Muir's passion for the outdoors shines through in every page of this remarkable book, reminding readers of the profound impact nature can have on the human spirit. I highly recommend 'A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (Illustrated Edition)' to anyone who appreciates lyrical writing, vivid descriptions of the natural world, and a deep reverence for the environment. Muir's timeless work continues to inspire readers to connect with nature and advocate for its protection, making this book a must-read for anyone who values the beauty of the Earth.
Download or read book The Story of My Boyhood and Youth written by John Muir and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of My Boyhood and Youthreveals the beginnings of the forming of Muir's special relation towards nature. He considered the encounters with nature as quite an adventure and at first, paid special attention to bird life. John Muir understood that to discover truth, he must turn to what he believed were the most accurate sources. In his autobiographical account, The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, he writes that during his childhood, his father made him read the Bible every day. Muir eventually memorized three-quarters of the Old Testament and all of the New Testament. In his autobiography, written near the end of his life, he described his life from childhood years in Scotland and moving to America to student years in Wisconsin. When he was a student in the University of Wisconsin he was a frequent caller at the house of Dr. Ezra S. Carr. The kindness shown him there, and especially the sympathy which Mrs. Carr, as a botanist and a lover of nature, felt in the young manes interests and aims, led to the formation of a lasting friendship. He regarded Mrs. Carr, indeed, as his "spiritual mother," and his letters to her in later years are the outpourings of a sensitive spirit to one who he felt thoroughly understood and sympathized with him. John Muir (1838-1914) was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, have been read by millions. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is a prominent American conservation organization.
Download or read book The Writings of John Muir Our national parks written by John Muir and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essential Muir written by John Muir and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this revised edition of Essential Muir, Muir's selected writings include those that show his ecological vision without ignoring his racism, providing a more complete portrait of the man"--
