John Muir Instagram, Wilderness Press, Meditations of John Muir

If John Muir Were on Instagram

*Snap* How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! #nofilter Let me just take a moment to post this on Instagram for all my adoring fans to seen once they wake from their slumber. True mountaineers are awake to watch the sun rise and light up the...

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Celebrating John Muir on his Birthday

No single American has done more to preserve our wilderness than John Muir, the Scottish-born naturalist and founder of the Sierra Club. Muir had already become the most ardent defender of the American wilderness by 1903 when he guided President Theodore Roosevelt on a three-day...

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John Muir’s Prescription for Healing Mind and Body

Are you tired, depressed, lacking in energy, feeling disconnected? Have you added more pounds than you’re comfortable with? How are your blood pressure numbers? Do you have diabetes? Are your children lethargic? Do you have to coax them to turn off their Mutant Ninja Turtles...

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On This Earth Day

This is an op-ed piece by Anne Rowthorn, compiler of The Wisdom of John Muir: 100+ Selections from the Letters, Journals, and Essays of the Great Naturalist (Wilderness Press). In John Muir’s book, every day was "Earth Day," and although he was long gone when the US celebrated...

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