http://portraits.georgetown.edu/items/browse?tags=Environment&output=atom <![CDATA[Georgetown Portraits]]> 2019-01-14T18:05:52-05:00 Omeka http://portraits.georgetown.edu/items/show/19 <![CDATA[John Muir]]> Environmentalist

John Muir was a naturalist, author, and conservationist. An industrial accident in a carriage factory became a critical moment in Muir's life as it led him to dedicate his life to the "fields and woods." Grateful for his recovery from the factory accident, he walked a thousand miles from Indianapolis to the Gulf of Mexico. After his initial sojourns, he settled in California, where the Sierra Nevada and Yosemite dominated his life. He founded the Sierra Club and wrote Our National Parks. He collaborated with Teddy Roosevelt to develop innovative and notable conservation programs protecting much of the American West including Yosemite, Grand Canyon, and the Petrified Forests.]]> 2011-10-28T14:37:49-04:00

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John Muir

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April 21, 1838 - December 24, 1914
Environmentalist

John Muir was a naturalist, author, and conservationist. An industrial accident in a carriage factory became a critical moment in Muir's life as it led him to dedicate his life to the "fields and woods." Grateful for his recovery from the factory accident, he walked a thousand miles from Indianapolis to the Gulf of Mexico. After his initial sojourns, he settled in California, where the Sierra Nevada and Yosemite dominated his life. He founded the Sierra Club and wrote Our National Parks. He collaborated with Teddy Roosevelt to develop innovative and notable conservation programs protecting much of the American West including Yosemite, Grand Canyon, and the Petrified Forests.
There is a portrait of John Muir in the National Portrait Gallery's "The 20th Century Americans: 1900-1930" collection.

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Muir

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