It's John Muir's Birthday (1838-1914). He became America's most influential naturalist, conservationist and founded the Sierra Club.
Muir once described himself as a "poetico-trampo-geologist-botanist and ornithologist-naturalist, etc., etc."
He loved the wild and walked 1,000 miles from Indiana to the Gulf of Mexico.
John Muir took President Theodore Roosevelt camping in Yosemite Valley which resulted in the national parks system: five national parks, 18 national monuments, 55 national bird sanctuaries and wildlife refuges, and 150 national forests.
Muir discovered that soaking sequoia pine cones in water turned the water purple. He used it as ink and drank it, "hoping thereby to ... render myself more tree-wise and sequoical."
Today, breathe the freshness of air, smell the trees and flowers in bloom and feel gratitude for what the earth does for you.
How will you help the natural world today? Pick up a discard. Listen to bird song and smile at another human being. Share the amazements of nature.
Share with us your celebration of our awesome planet.
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