The hiker signed and traipsed off, not realizing he’d just shaken hands with the great-great-grandson of John ... places on the map of California that bore his great-great-grandfather’s name ...

places to play and ... body and soul alike,” wrote Muir (c. 1902). Corbis Yosemite Falls in Yosemite National Park Chee-Onn Leong / iStockphoto The naturalist John Muir is so closely associated ...

Coolest souvenir: Hundreds of mosquito bites. Worth a splurge: Taking the ferry back from the John Muir Trail to the Vermilion Valley Resort after the trip and taking a hot shower after nine days ...

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike,” John Muir famously declared. That advice seems just as ...

From him I learned that national parks and wilderness areas are places of worship. I found a kindred spirit in John Muir, who believed that exposure to the natural world, especially mountains ...

In 1880, after a dozen years of tramping through the Sierras and other wild places in the west, Muir returned to civilization and married Louisa Strenztzel. “Louie” as she was called by John ...

John Muir’s poetic words ... Impugning luminaries like Muir and Paepcke shakes up civilization, just as it has with Thomas Jefferson’s misconduct. It’s easy to point a finger at wrong-doers in places ...

Muir Trail Ranch is a popular resupply spot in the John Muir Wilderness for hikers on the John Muir Trail, which spans 211 miles from Yosemite National Park to Mount Whitney. Much of it overlaps ...

For John Muir, founder of America's national parks, immersion in nature was a blessing providing direct communion with divinity, writes Tim Flinders, and the cause of a spiritual awakening that ...

John Muir was an author, environmental activist, and founder of the Sierra Club. He was known for his nature writing and as an advocate for preserving wilderness in the United States. In decrying ...

Thus it was that John Muir developed a love ... one of the first trends to conserve special places by securing the land for all as a park. Today, Muir is a popular symbol toward conservation ...