Naturalist John Muir maintained a legendary devotion to California's Sierra Nevada. A new book explores the lesser-known passion that rooted his love for nature: plants. KPCC's Molly Peterson says ...
Prologue : The gospel of glaciers -- Part One: 1879-1880. The heaven right here ; A skookum-house of ice ; It is not a sin to go home ; We must risk our lives in order to save them -- Part Two: ...
In 1903, the American conservationist John Muir — legendary nature writer, founder of the Sierra Club, lover of sequoias, camping buddy of Teddy Roosevelt — set off on a botanical world tour or, as he ...
Michael Edmonds, deputy director of the library and archives division at the Wisconsin Historical Society, shows off John Muir’s clock desk that automatically distributes books at a set time. The ...
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