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John Muir was born April 21st, 1838 in Danbar, Scotland. Muir and his family traveled to the United States in 1849 and his family settled in Wisconsin. He was very inventive and intelligent as an adolescent and attended Wisconsin University. After three years he dropped out to travel west and see the unspoiled nature. He sustained an eye injury in 1867 that made him want to travel the world after he had traveled through most of the Northern Americas he made this comment about Yosemite "then it seemed to me the Sierra should be called not the Nevada, or Snowy Range, but the Range of Light...the most divinely beautiful of all the mountain chains I have ever seen," he had fallen in love with California's Yosemite and Sierra Nevada.
He became renowned for his research on these areas. And in 1892, under great inspiration from Robert Johnston, Muir founded the Sierra Club. He worked diligently with Congress to form such national parks as Sequoia, Mt. Rainier, Petrified Forest, Yosemite, and the Grand Canyon. To this day he is referred to as the "Father of Our National Park System."
