John Muir

(noun)

(1838–1914) a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. Founder of the Sierra Club.

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Examples of John Muir in the following topics:

  • Legislative Leadership

    • In 1903, Roosevelt toured the Yosemite Valley with John Muir, who had a very different view of conservation, and tried to minimize commercial use of water resources and forests.
    • Working through the Sierra Club, Muir succeeded in having Congress transfer the Mariposa Grove and Yosemite Valley to the federal government by 1905.
    • While Muir wanted nature preserved for the sake of beauty, Roosevelt subscribed to Pinchot's formulation, "to make the forest produce the largest amount of whatever crop or service will be most useful, and keep on producing it for generation after generation of men and trees. " In effect, Roosevelt's conservationism embodied the Progressive ideal of efficiency: to protect nature in order to render it serviceable to the needs and uses of man for successive generations.

  • Environmental Protests

    • The Sierra Club was founded on May 28, 1892, in San Francisco, California, by the conservationist and preservationist John Muir, who became its first president.
    • President John F.
    • President Theodore Roosevelt and nature preservationist John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, on Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park.

  • Roosevelt and Conservation

    • In 1903, Roosevelt toured the Yosemite Valley with John Muir, and tried to minimize commercial use of water resources and forests.
    • Working through the Sierra Club, Muir succeeded in having Congress transfer the Mariposa Grove and Yosemite Valley to the federal government by 1905.
    • While Muir wanted nature preserved for the sake of beauty, Roosevelt subscribed to Pinchot's formulation, "to make the forest produce the largest amount of whatever crop or service will be most useful, and keep on producing it for generation after generation of men and trees."

  • The Eight Intelligences

    • Some real life examples people who are gifted with this intelligence are Albert Einstein, Niehls Bohr, and John Dewey.
    • Charles Darwin and John Muir are examples of people gifted in this way.

  • The Drake Equation

  • Is anyone out there?

  • The requirements for life

  • Requirements for plant and animal life

  • The development of life on Earth

  • The Magna Carta

    • When Richard died, his brother John—Henry’s fifth and only surviving son—took the throne
    • Here the rebels presented John with their draft demands for reform, the "Articles of the Barons."
    • Clause 61 was a serious challenge to John's authority as a ruling monarch.
    • The pope rejected any call for restraints on the king, saying it impaired John's dignity.
    • John of England signs the Magna Carta.