【4/21 今日美史】美国环保运动和自然主义的一个代表人物
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The beautiful Sierra Nevada range in California deeply moved Muir in a tour that he did. Drawing on the ideas of American transcendentalists like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, Muir argued that wild nature offered a “window opening into heaven, a mirror reflecting the Creator.” Muir developed a near-religious veneration（尊重） for the Sierra Nevada territory and a passionate desire to preserve the wild state of the area. In 1892, he and several other early preservationists formed the Sierra Club. Muir served as the club president for 22 years, tirelessly advocating the importance of preserving wilderness as a place where thousands of “tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people” could find spiritual and physical rejuvenation.
Muir died in 1914. It is hard to overestimate Muir’s influence in fostering modern concepts of wilderness appreciation and protection. The conservationist ideas he proposed in books like Our National Parks, The Yosemite, and dozens of influential magazine articles have become an accepted part of mainstream American thought.
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John Muir, naturalist, wilderness conservation, Sierra Club