SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Naturalist John Muir is memorialized all over the Bay Area from national parks to hospital names. Now the organization he founded, the Sierra Club, is bringing to light what ...

John Muir is a towering figure in the environmental movement. He saved Yosemite Valley, helped form the National Park Service and influenced generations with his passionate calls to protect and revere ...

John Muir was born in Scotland on April 21, 1838. His family moved to the United States when he was 11 years old and settled in Wisconsin. Muir was an inventor, farmer, sheepherder, logger and ...

Who was John Muir? You’ve probably seen his immortal line “the mountains are calling and I must go", quoted countless times on Instagram or printed on any number of hoodies or camping mugs. You may ...

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” Sierra Club founding member John Muir penned those words more than a ...

Preface / Gary Snyder -- Introduction / Tom Killion -- Singing the Seasons / Tom Killion with excerpts from the writings of John Muir -- Gary Snyder's High Sierra Journals / Gary Snyder -- Sketching, ...

A plan to convert John Muir's Scottish birthplace to a virtual reality museum has ignited an outcry from his California descendants, environmentalists and history buffs against what they consider an ...