John Muir

It's #JohnMuirDay today! ... April 21 🌎 Who was John Muir? Father of America's National Parks. Founder of The Sierra Club. Conservationist, long time walker 😉 and scribbler 😁📚 #JohnMuirWay & #JohnMuirTrail,@JohnMuirTrust @JM_Birthplace @JohnMuirLegacy @NatlParkService

"In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks." — John Muir

@doobeenice @ProudofusUK Thanks! 😋

@ProudofusUK Bless his cotton socks for all that he had done Here's to John Muir having a wonderful journey

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 Yosemite. The Sequoias. The Grand Canyon.🇺🇸 A boy from Dunbar, Scotland made the world protect all of it. His name was John Muir. 🏔️ Born 1838 in Dunbar, East Lothian. From the age he could walk he roamed the cliffs and fields of the Scottish coast. Something about the wild world would not let him go. In 1849 his family emigrated to Wisconsin. His father worked the family from dawn to dusk. John wanted to read. To think. To study. So he invented a machine that tipped him out of bed at one in the morning. To give himself more hours in the day. 🕐 In 1867 a factory accident nearly blinded him. When he recovered his sight he made a decision. He would turn his eyes to the fields and the woods. And never look back. He walked a thousand miles from Indiana to the Gulf of Mexico. Sailed to California. And walked into Yosemite. 🏔️ He lived there for three years in a simple cabin. Emerson visited. Offered him a teaching post at Harvard. Muir said no. Sheep were destroying the meadows. Loggers were taking the trees. Muir started writing. Articles read by millions. In 1890 Congress created Yosemite National Park. In 1892 he founded the Sierra Club. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 In 1903 President Roosevelt came to Yosemite. They camped for three nights under the open sky. Muir talked. Roosevelt listened. Roosevelt went on to protect 148 million acres of forest. Five new national parks. Sixteen national monuments. ✅ All of it traces back to a boy from Dunbar. He never lost his Scottish accent. He died on Christmas Eve, 1914. He was 76. Did they teach you his name? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 Muir gave everything to keep what he loved alive. Our history needs the same thing. We need our keepers. proudofus.co.uk/support Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

@DrewSul22351735 @ProudofusUK Aye true ... they've ditched their founder and I've given them hell. 😂

@ProudofusUK Sierra Club sucks

@BillyLeMaire @ProudofusUK wholly a Scot 😋 where I was born 😁

@ProudofusUK Sounds like he was wholly an American.

@GBarber_12 @ProudofusUK 😂😂 ... have BOOKMARKED

@ProudofusUK Hang on, now you’re reaching for American stuff. Ease up. If I see a Carnegie post, there’s gonna be WORDS.

@SoManyTrix @ProudofusUK See this then 😋 x.com/i/status/20361…

@ProudofusUK I’m from CA and I did not know this! Thank you!

@otter_blues @ProudofusUK Great to hear ... thanks!

@ProudofusUK He's still a hero in Wisconsin.

@WoodlandNomad Use this proof 😋

I can’t offer you conclusive proof, but there is a chance that reincarnation is real and John Muir has returned. As me 😊

@Naturalphilosy ... so he did. 😋 John Muir >>>

“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.” — John Muir

@amazingmap John Muir would walk it.

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@JohnMuirLegacy @Hana_b30 What kind of dog is this?

Sequoia National Park in California

It's so easy to stay tucked up inside on winter days, when it's cold and damp and dark, but I promise you that there are rich colours, soft light and the delicate tracery of bare trees all waiting for you out there. Wrap up warm, and you always return home with your heart a little lighter than when you set out. 📍 Peak District, England

Kummakivi is a 500,000 kg Rock in Ruokolahti , Finland that has been Balancing on top of another Rock for 11,000 Years.

7/ Enter John Muir — naturalist, writer, and tireless advocate. His writings made Americans fall in love with wild places. In 1903, he took President Theodore Roosevelt camping in Yosemite. Roosevelt later said those three days were the best experience of his life.

@TRPresLibrary with John Muir here.

March 2, 1909 — Theodore Roosevelt’s last conservation blitz It was Theodore Roosevelt’s final full day in the White House. Most presidents spend their last hours packing. Roosevelt spent his expanding the map. On March 2, 1909, he signed a rapid-fire series of proclamations that reshaped public lands across the American West—enlarging national forests in California, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico, shifting boundaries where watersheds and timberlands needed clearer protection, and setting aside new reserves like Zuni National Forest. And then came one of the boldest strokes: Mount Olympus National Monument—a safeguard for the rain-soaked Olympic Peninsula, where ancient forests climb toward glaciers and elk move through deep green valleys. It was a declaration that some places were too important to leave to chance. Read the list and it feels like bureaucracy: Mono. Shasta. Tahoe. Lincoln. Plumas. Sitgreaves. Sequoia. But the intent was anything but small. Roosevelt was protecting watersheds that fed farms and towns. He was locking in federal stewardship over forests that could be stripped in a season. He was building a conservation system meant to last beyond any single administration. Some of those proclamations also folded pieces of Indigenous reservation lands into surrounding national forests—actions that remind us how complicated federal land policy could be, even when framed as conservation. What’s undeniable is the scale of his urgency. Roosevelt understood that preservation isn’t a mood—it’s a decision. And sometimes it has to happen fast, before the window closes. On his last full day as president, he chose the future. #TheodoreRoosevelt #Conservation #PublicLands #NationalForests #MountOlympus

Wordle 1,726 3/6 #Wordle1726 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 "Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt." ~ John Muir