John Muir

Recently, I’ve been captivated by the writings of John Muir, his descriptions of  life as a Scottish emigrant to America, vividly illustrating the harsh environment faced by those early settlers in the pioneering days of the mid 1800s. His prose is truly beautiful, depicting an affinity with nature and an instinctive attitude to “conservation”, despite the seemingly endless abundance of natural riches that the virgin environment provided.  Clearly a spiritual man, his writings reflect how his youthful enjoyment of the wilderness remained  throughout his life and left a lasting legacy  in a way that would have delighted and humbled him