Park status was the culmination of a long campaign by John Muir and other conservationists to preserve a unique forest, field, and glacial landscape under threat from the timber and mining ...

Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees," the naturalist John Muir wrote in 1901 (via National Park Service). "The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the ...

Muir emigrated from Scotland in 1849, and played a key role in the development of America's national parks, petitioning the Congress for the National Park Bill ... character as John Muir, which ...