Our National Parks: A campaign for the preservation of wilderness (John Muir: The Eight Wilderness-Discovery Books Book 5) By John Muir

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‘Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away ... God has cared for these trees ... but he cannot save them from fools – only Uncle Sam can do that.’First published in 1901, Our National Parks is possibly the bestselling book of Muir’s wilderness-discovery titles and was certainly the most influential published in his lifetime, with a strong focus on the preservation of forest reserves.With a strong political tone and shrewd, subtle manoeuvring, Muir uses Our National Parks to persuade his readership of the necessity of nature and national parks for human recreation and more importantly for health and wellbeing, as well as the – in his mind – obvious need for preservation of wild ecosystems.Cannily he counterbalances this with the acknowledgement of the need for timber and irrigation systems, in order that his message is taken seriously; Muir’s passion is portrayed so vividly and flamboyantly that without his learned political and scientific reinforcement, he could be misconstrued as purely a radical and eccentric nonconformist. However, the two combined result in an engaging and convincing argument that these landscapes are our ‘natural home’, and ‘fountains of life’.As Muir expert Terry Gifford observes in the foreword, ‘Muir’s tone can shift in this book from seductive persuasion, to charming details of creatures, flora and landscapes, to scientific information, to trail guide, to religious uplift, to a final political speech of startling ferocity.’John Muir’s strategic yet genuine and beautiful conservationist essays were a first at the time of publication, and are still highly applicable to our attitudes and lifestyles today in the twenty-first century.

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As regards his love of Creation, the great Scottish-American naturalist John Muir was cut from the same cloth as our old friend Theodore Roosevelt. Muir was a staunch defender of America’s natural treasures, and in all probability spent more time in his life outdoors than in. He, like TR, authored several works throughout his life. And he, again, like TR, was an overbearingly detailed writer.John Muir once ran down a bear just to see it run away so as to be able to study its gait. Another time, he rode an avalanche down a mountain to understand how avalanches work, and said that even the memory of that experience continued to exhilarate him. Once, during a Yosemite earthquake, he ran outside and rode the whole thing out in order study its effects in nature. There was even a time when he climbed to the top of a tree during a severe thunderstorm and held on for dear life so that he could understand violent weather. And I wish that this book was about all those things.But it’s not. Instead one has to suffer through repetitive binomial nomenclature (I.e. the Latin names of plants and animals), and boring descriptions- though impressively poetic- of the various flora, fauna and topography of the only four national parks that existed in 1901, all found at that time in California, except Yellowstone.If you want to read a book by John Muir, knock yourself out with this one. I love our national parks, so in that sense it was interesting. If you want to read about John Muir, this book won’t do. Muir is captivating in many ways, but like my buddy TR, his books ain’t always one’a them ways.As much of a non-fiction reader as I am, I may actually need to reach for a little dab of fiction just as a sort of mental palette cleanser.

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