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When it comes to poetically describing nature and its beauty, John Muir has a vast compendium of quotes. He was the man that came up with the iconic term “Range of Light” for the Sierra. He helped spark a revolution by writing about Yosemite and inspired the creation of a national park.
Entranced by the peaks, trees, and waters in what he eventually called “the Range of Light,” he told Carr that he was “feasting in the Lord’s mountain house.”
The Range of Light. “. . . then it seemed to me that the Sierra should be called, not the Nevada, or Snowy Range, but the Range of Light. And after ten years of wandering and wondering in the heart of it, rejoicing in its glorious floods of light, the white beams of the morning streaming through the passes, the noonday radiance on the crystal ...
Source: The Yosemite, Chapter 1. John Muir's First Journey into the Sierra Nevada. A Scottish immigrant working on a farm in Wisconsin, at age 22 John Muir left the radically conservative environment of his family home in pursuit of knowledge and new experiences.
13 kwi 2021 · The Sierra Nevada, called the “Range of Light” by John Muir, rises as a great wave of stone between the Great Basin and the Central Valley of California.
14 mar 2024 · Muir and Chilwell walked down the Santa Clara Valley, and on a bright morning at the head of the remote fourteen-mile Pacheco Pass through the Diablo Mountains of the Coast Ranges—a place once known as Robber’s Pass—Muir was stunned by his first view of the Sierra.
John Muir was perhaps this country's most famous and influential naturalist and conservationist. He taught the people of his time and ours the importance of experiencing and protecting our natural heritage.
