A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
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I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer, John Muir wrote.
Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted
at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to
entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own special self
is nothing. In Donald Worster's magisterial biography, John Muir's
special self is fully explored as is his extraordinary ability,
then and now, to get others to see the sacred beauty of the natural
world. A Passion for Nature is the most complete account of the
great conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club ever written.
It is the first to be based on Muir's full private correspondence
and to meet modern scholarly standards. Yet it is also full of rich
detail and personal anecdote, uncovering the complex inner life
behind the legend of the solitary mountain man. It traces Muir from
his boyhood in Scotland and frontier Wisconsin to his adult life in
California right after the Civil War up to his death on the eve of
World War I. It explores his marriage and family life, his
relationship with his abusive father, his many friendships with the
humble and famous (including Theodore Roosevelt and Ralph Waldo
Emerson), and his role in founding the modern American conservation
movement. Inspired by Muir's passion for the wilderness, Americans
created a long and stunning list of national parks and wilderness
areas, Yosemite most prominent among them. Yet the book also
describes a Muir who was a successful fruit-grower, a talented
scientist and world-traveler, a doting father and husband, a
self-made man of wealth and political influence. A man for whom
mountaineering was a pathway to revelation and worship. For anyone
wishing to more fully understand America's first great
environmentalist, and the enormous influence he still exerts today,
Donald Worster's biography offers a wealth of insight into the
passionate nature of a man whose passion for nature remains
unsurpassed.
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