JOHN MUIR, AMERICAN NATURALIST, EXPLORER, AUTHOR, 1838-1914 
BESIDE ONE OF THE TREES HE LOVED 
The mountains and flower-covered foothills of the Sierras, the glaciers of Yosemite, giant sequoias — these were 
the comrades of his high spirit. He lived among them for many years — often in loneliness for human comradeship, 
studied them with devotion, with the close observation of a scientific mind, and wrote and talked of them with 
{ charm and power. He persistently championed their preservation for the people and to his efforts we owe to-day 
our sequoia groves, the Yosemite Valley and Yellowstone Park 
[Photograph presented by John Muir to Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1911] 
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