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by Roy MacKinnon John Muir was born in Scotland in 1838. When he was 11 years old his family emigrated to the USA where they settled in Wisconsin. There, he helped his father to clear a space in the wilderness to build a home. In his spare time he carved, using a pen knife, all sorts of artefacts including a wooden thermometer and barometer, both of which worked. He pursued his education at the University of Wisconsin, funding it through teaching in his spare time and helping out at harvest time. He had previously schooled himself to make do with only five hours sleep per night, which allowed him time to do all he wanted to do. A narrow escape, when he almost lost the sight in one eye, brought home to him with absolute clarity his profound love for nature and for wilderness. He walked everywhere, wholly absorbed by nature and soon had wandered through half a dozen states, when one day he came across Yosemite. "I came to life in the cool winds and the crystal waters of the mountains" he later wrote and from that point onwards his love affair with Yosemite began. Something that remained with him to the end of his life. After each of his trips elsewhere he would always return to the Sierras as though it was only here that he felt at home, at one with nature. While he was a qualified engineer he had joined the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. This afforded him the opportunity to travel to Alaska where he studied the glaciers. Glacial formations were a great focus of his attention. He examined them in Siberia, Norway and Switzerland. In fact he rapidly became a well-informed geologist who later would challenge the likes of Agassiz concerning the origins of Yosemite. He insisted Yosemite was the product of glaciation, not earthquake activity, and encourage by the wife of his former university professor, started to publish his findings. Muir was greatly disturbed by what people and animals could do to damage the natural environment and became profoundly committed to conservation, or rather preservation, often lamenting the very visible destruction of the wilderness by the deliberate introduction of grazing sheep. He started to fight to have certain parts of the countryside set aside as beautiful national parks. Muir was essentaially a preservationist, not a conservationist and drew the attention of authorities to two articles he had published on the matter. As a result Congress passed a bill on the creation of national parks but to Muir's dismay left Yosemite in state control. With others, a couple of years later he founded the Sierra Club and became its first president. A position he held until his death 22 years later. Muir's efforts came to the attention of President Theodore Roosevelt and in 1903 he accompanied Muir on a visit to Yosemite where Muir persuaded him to sleep out under the stars. This, the president did and on one of the mornings of his three day stay received a dusting of snow from nature as a present.
John Muir
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