Speaker. Author. Poet. Conservationist.
Yosemite National Park owes much of its federal protection to a famous four-day camping trip between John Muir and President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903 — a conversation that changed American conservation history.
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At a screening of The Unruly Mystic: John Muir in Fort Collins, Dr. Holmes Rolston III — "The Father of Environmental Ethics" — arrived unannounced at age 86. A reflection on what happens when a film draws the right audience.
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John Muir was born in Scotland, and Scots have always had a poetic relationship with their weather. A lighthearted look at the Scottish words and phrases for rain, wind, and cold that you won't find in Muir's Yosemite writings.
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