Jennifer_SFBA
06/09/06, 06:53 pm
John Muir, the father of the Sierra Club formed to save Hetch Hetch Valley (the equal of Yosemity Valley) from dam builders, wrote with awe, wonder and inspiration about the interrelationship between human emotionality and spitituality as he himself had found it and experienced it in nature, in the wilderness. Reading John Muir's books is akin to being with him on his journies. Buying John Muir's books on the Sierra Club website helps support the Sierra Club, one of the legacies John Muir left for future generations.
John Muir books I especially enjoyed are; "My Boyhood and Youth," "A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf" (He was a Saunterer), "Stickeen," about his Alaska glacial explorations with his wee little dog, Sticken, and "The Mountains of California" that tells, among many other extraordinary things, of his meeting with President Teddy Roosevelt and Secretary of State Gifford Pinchot in the Yosemity Valley. All of his other books I highly recommend. They will lift and transport you in wonder and awe.
http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/frameindex.html?
http://www.sierraclub.org/John_Muir_Exhibit/bibliographic_resources/john_muir_bibliography/books_by_john_muir.html
John Muir books I especially enjoyed are; "My Boyhood and Youth," "A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf" (He was a Saunterer), "Stickeen," about his Alaska glacial explorations with his wee little dog, Sticken, and "The Mountains of California" that tells, among many other extraordinary things, of his meeting with President Teddy Roosevelt and Secretary of State Gifford Pinchot in the Yosemity Valley. All of his other books I highly recommend. They will lift and transport you in wonder and awe.
http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/frameindex.html?
http://www.sierraclub.org/John_Muir_Exhibit/bibliographic_resources/john_muir_bibliography/books_by_john_muir.html