John Muirin a sentence
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As a young man, John Muir walked a thousand miles from Indiana to Florida.
John Muir = U.S. naturalist instrumental in forming Yosemite National Park and the Sierra Club (1838-1914)
- His ambivalence toward sex echoes that of celebrated others who embraced wilderness with single-minded passion, Thoreau (who was a lifelong virgin) and the naturalist John Muir, most prominently, to say nothing of countless lesser-known pilgrims, seekers, misfits, and adventurers.† (source)
- In 1874, the Murphy town sheriff had given old John Muir the same sort of official welcome.† (source)
- John Muir, The Mountains of California† (source)
- If we laugh at Everett Ruess we shall have to laugh at John Muir, because there was little difference between them except age.† (source)
- John Muir is remembered primarily as a no-nonsense conservationist and the founding president of the Sierra Club, but he was also a bold adventurer, a fearless scrambler of peaks, glaciers, and waterfalls whose best-known essay includes a riveting account of nearly falling to his death, in 1872, while ascending California's Mt. Ritter.† (source)
- The only difference was that John didn't have a driver's license or draft card to show as I.D.Thanks to John Muir who went before me, Murphy was ready for the likes of me.† (source)
- When I told him he welcomed us to Murphy and began to tell me about the most famous walker in American history, John Muir, who walked through Murphy exactly one hundred years before on his thousand-mile walk to the Gulf.† (source)