“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.”

About John Muir

Naturalist • Scottish-American

John Muir was a highly influential Scottish-American naturalist, author, and an early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia...