We’ve all seen John Muir’s quote, “The mountains are calling and I must go,” framed on restaurant and store walls around town, and you may even have it in your living room or on a T-shirt. Muir wrote ...

Summertime is John Muir time. The Scottish-American ... Virtue and Education 1. “The mountains are calling and I must go, and ...

Corbis Yosemite Falls in Yosemite National Park Chee-Onn Leong / iStockphoto The naturalist John Muir is so closely associated ... quotes—"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

The great conservation movement which resulted in the establishment of national parks won its success through the personal efforts of John Muir. He wrote a book on “The Mountains of California ...

1. “The mountains are calling and I must go.” – John Muir 2. “Going to the mountains is like going home.” – John Muir 3.”You are not in the mountains. The mountains are in you.” ...

Preservationist John Muir was known for his extensive travels through the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, but the famed outdoorsman also spent many of his days exploring the mountains and ...

Run a Google search on naturalist and preservationist John Muir and you will quickly turn up one of his best-known, yet abbreviated, sayings: “The mountains are calling and I must go.” ...

Who was John Muir? The Scotland-born “father of the ... around a place still in ashes from the Civil War. “‘The Mountains Are Calling’ — And They’re Not Happy” is one chapter heading.

The park actually antedates the agency that now cares for it; the naturalist John Muir helped ... may feel as Muir did in 1873: “The mountains are calling and I must go.” ...