In Labor Of Love For A Beauty Pet. John Muir, Noted Lover of Nature, Who says San Francisco wants to trade a hog ranch for the Hetch-Hetchy Valley, one of God's beautiful flower gardens.

• Main Author: Muir, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1909
• Subjects: Environmentalist; naturalist; travel; conservation; national parks; John Muir; history; pamphlets; journal articles; speeches; writing; annotation; Bor; glaciers; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/616; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmb/article/1615/viewcontent/A20.pdf

I i «3 NATURE'S CHAMPION. BOR OF LOVE FOR A BEAUTY PET. John Muir, Noted Lover of Nature, who says San Francisco wants to trade a hog ranch for the Hetch-Hetchy Valley, one of God's beautiful flower gardens. ii w HY, they want to trade a hog ranch—a hog ranch—for this most beautiful of Go'd's natural flower gardens, and then do with it as they please." The fine face of John Muir, botanist and naturalist, clouded with indignation as he sat in The Times office yesterday and discussed the efforts of San Francisco to get possession of his favorite Hetch-Hetchey'Valley, In the Sierra Nevada Mountains. . It was largely through Mr. Muir, in his position of president of the Sierra Club of California and of the American Alpine Club, supplemented by his world-wide fame as a nature lover, that the beautiful valley was set apart as a national park. His very soul is stirred within him at the thought,of the destruction of the picturesque trails and defiling the fern beds with wagon roads. "1 .climbed these mountains forty years ago," he said, with a peculiar tenderness, "and for ten years lived among the Sierras all alone. I came to California to spend a year in studying the Yosemite Valley, but became so fascinated with the magnificence .of it that time ran on and on, until I never wanted to go away. ' "It was forty-one years ago, just after T came out of college, that I left my, home in Wisconsin and started on my botanical travels. I went to Florida and Cuba and many other places before coming to California, and have made one trip around the world sinGe. "The Sierra Club was gotten up to encourage mountaineering and to give people first knowledge of our mountains and forests, so that they will stand up for their preservation." Among the noted discoveries of Mr. Muir is that of the glaciers of California, on the axis of the Sierra range; and his startling experiences in the glaciers of Alaska have been put in the form of a book, under the title, "Stick'een," riamed for a dog that accompanied him and shared his dangers ...