Author: John Muir

John Muir agreed in 1881 to sail aboard the Corwin, whose fruitless mission it was to search for the missing scientific research vessel Jeannette, ...

'Divine beauty all. Here I could stay tethered forever with just bread and water, nor would I be lonely.' In the summer of 1869, John Muir joined a...

To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.First published in 1915, Travels in Alaska is the last boo...

When a man plants a tree, he plants himself. Every root is an anchor, over which he rests with grateful interest, and becomes sufficiently calm to ...

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over.John Muir is kn...

This volume of John Muir's selected writings chronicles the key turning points in his life and study of the American wilderness. The Story of My Bo...

The Story of my Boyhood and Youth is the affecting memoir of the now internationally renowned John Muir, a Scottish-American boy subject to a most ...

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away ... God has cared for these trees ... but he cannot save them from fools only Uncle Sam can do t...

All these colours, from the blue sky to the yellow valley smoothly blending as they do in a rainbow, making a wall of light ineffably fine.Having s...

My First Summer in the Sierra is the incredible true story of John Muirs iconic time spent working in the California mountain range of the Sierra N...