Sweet Americana Sweethearts: John Muir - Father of the National Park System

Post by (C) Doris McCraw

aka Angela Raines

Image (C) Doris McCraw

John Muir (1838-1914) was considered the Father of the National Park System and the founder of the Sierra Club.

For more information about the man and his work, a link will be provided at the end of this post. For this post, I'll use his words to give you a sense of who John Muir was.

"Thousands of nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home."

"Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, casing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another."

"Even the blind must enjoy these woods, drinking their fragrance, listening to he music of the winds in their groves, and fingering their flowers and plumes and cones and rightly furrowed boles."

Image (C) Doris McCraw

"Keep close to Nature's heart..."

"The mountains are calling and I must go."

Image (C) Doris McCraw

"The power of the imagination makes us infinite."

"Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love."

"Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you."