1. He travelled all over the world: Japan, Cuba, Panama, Australia, and more!
2. He hung out with Ralph Waldo Emerson (and also Teddy Roosevelt, if you're into presidents)
3. He ran a fruit ranch (I mean, come on, who doesn't secretly want to run a fruit ranch?)
4. He had a hand in creating 5 of our national parks (Yosemite, of course; Sequoia; Mount Rainier; Petrified Forest; and Grand Canyon)
5. He invented a machine to tilt him out of bed because he was not a morning person.
6. He walked from Kentucky to Florida
7. He took a job as a shepherd in Yosemite just because he wanted to have more time to climb the mountains.
8. He built his cabin in Yosemite over a stream so he could listen to the sound of the rushing water all the time.
9. He founded the Sierra Club which is still active in nature preservation today (Our local chapter is full of interesting folks!)
10. He had a badass beard:
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| John Muir, 1902 |
