{"id":761,"date":"2014-12-30T12:22:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T20:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realgardensgrownatives.com\/?p=761"},"modified":"2014-12-30T14:57:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T22:57:06","slug":"one-hundred-years-john-muirs-legacy-lives-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realgardensgrownatives.com\/?p=761","title":{"rendered":"One Hundred Years: John Muir&#8217;s Legacy Lives On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-762\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/realgardensgrownatives.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Multnomah-Creek-sRGB.jpg?resize=700%2C850&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Multnomah Creek, Oregon\" width=\"700\" height=\"850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/realgardensgrownatives.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Multnomah-Creek-sRGB.jpg?w=791&amp;ssl=1 791w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/realgardensgrownatives.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Multnomah-Creek-sRGB.jpg?resize=288%2C350&amp;ssl=1 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Several days ago\u00a0I intended to post a fairly comprehensive tribute to\u00a0the &#8220;Apostle of the Wild,&#8221; John Muir, who died a century ago on Christmas Eve, but a cold got the better of me. Muir was enthralled with the earth and I count his writings among those that stirred my passion for nature; he was one of the great thinkers who made a prominent impression on countless others.<\/p>\n<p>A Scottish immigrant, Muir studied natural sciences at the University of Wisconsin but\u00a0became a naturalist, conservationist, geologist, botanist, philosopher, poet, and eventually a public figure, through what he called the &#8220;University of Wilderness&#8221; (although many actual universities, including Harvard and Yale, later granted him honorary degrees). His writings\u00a0&#8220;belonged to that tradition of British naturalists whose work was so fused with the writer&#8217;s personality and so penetrated by individual feeling that their output was as much literature as science,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/obituaries\/archives\/la-me-john-muir-19141225-story.html#page=1\">opined\u00a0the L.A. Times<\/a> the day after his death in 1914. Muir dedicated his life to the preservation of wilderness areas and national parks.<\/p>\n<p>Tragically, Muir&#8217;s legacy is under attack. But in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biohabitats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/John-Muirs-Last-Stand.pdf\">&#8220;John Muir&#8217;s Last Stand,&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0Tom Butler and Eileen Crist celebrate the man and the gifts he left us, while defending a\u00a0wilderness movement that protects the wild, for its own sake. I could not have said it better.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Copyright info\" href=\"https:\/\/realgardensgrownatives.com\/?page_id=643\">\u00a9 2014 Eileen M. Stark<\/a><\/p>\n<h6>To leave a comment please click on the blog&#8217;s title<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several days ago\u00a0I intended to post a fairly comprehensive tribute to\u00a0the &#8220;Apostle of the Wild,&#8221; John Muir, who died a century ago on Christmas Eve, but a cold got the better of me. 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