America’s National Parks Podcast
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Known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks," legendary naturalist John Muir was far ahead of his time, holding ideals that many are just coming around to.
Muir undertook a daring adventure in 1867 that led him to the path of natural enlightenment. He decided that he wanted to explore the world. He left his life in Indiana and walked one thousand miles to Florida. Muir trekked south through Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida with little more than a map, a compass, a brush, soap, and a change of underclothes.
Muir later penned his adventure in "A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf," which has become a classic naturalist text set against the backdrop of the post-civil war south. In it, he makes loads of prescient observations, but none more arresting than his denunciation of the idea that God mad nature as man's personal resource factory. That perhaps, the creator mad nature for nature's sake, and the lives and feelings of every plant and animal matter just as much as our own.
Rangers Make the Difference
The 14th Colony
The Land That Made a President
Unleashing a Tamed River
Acadia National Park and the Year Maine Burned
The Gateway to Arizona
Alcatraz and the Civil War
The Curse of the Petrified Forest
Drunken Subterranian Terrorism
Dred and Harriet Scott
Legends of Denali
Lady Liberty
Delicate Arch, and the Strange 1950s Schemes to Reinforce It
Muir, Roosevelt, and Yosemite: A Camping Trip That Changed the World
California Condors
An Island Prison
The Voyageurs
Pirates and Parks
37 Days in Yellowstone
The Grand Dame of the Everglades
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