John Muir
The world famous American naturalist and conservationist, John Muir, was born on April 21, 1838 in the town of Dunbar, Scotland. He was the son of Daniel and Anne Muir. At an early age of three Muir began to show his love for nature and in his later years as a teen he got into a habit of taking strolls through nearby forests and hills. When he was eight years old, his family emigrated from Scotland to a farm near Portage, Wisconsin. From the age of eleven till twenty-one, John Muir worked on his father’s farm as an un-paid worker. At twenty-two he left home to exhibit his mechanical inventions at the State Fair in Madison, Wisconsin. There he received his first public recognition for his inventions by Wisconsin State Journal. His most well known invention was the study desk that retrieved a book, held it in place for the given period of time, and then automatically replaced it with another book. While at the fair, he met Jeanne Carr, the judge of the exhibits, and wife of Ezra Carr, a professor at University of Wisconsin. After attending the University of Wisconsin, Madison, for two and a half years he worked on mechanical inventions, but in 1867, when an industrial accident nearly cost him an eye-sight, he abandoned that career
John Muir is the man that made Americans take a different approach towards nature and brought change with his dedicated work. He is the man everyone and anyone who enters a National Park should think off and thank. John Muir is solemnly responsible for the abundance of National Parks and Forests we have to day. In our appreciation of this great man we had the honor of naming nature’s phenomena and places after him. “It is fitting that the mighty Alaskan glacier he discovered bears his name, and that a noble forest of California redwoods is called The Muir Woods.” This foreseeing man had succeeded in bringing about a change that has made a great difference in the life of our society.
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