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1867: Muir, working in a carriage shop, badly injures his eye. Later, with his eye healed, he turns aside from industry and devotes his life to nature. He begins by walking over a thousand miles from Kentucky to the Gulf of Mexico.
1868: Muir travels to California and visits Yosemite for the first time. He describes it as "the grandest of all the special temples of Nature." Muir spends as much time as possible communing with the environment and planting himself firmly out-of-doors, making himself as wild as the lands he would later protect.
1872: Muir begins writing his experiences and publishing them in magazines and newspapers. Muir's articles remind us of the travel writers of today as he encouraged his readers to visit places of great natural beauty.
1880: With his marriage to Louisa Strentzel, commonly referred to as "Louie," and his work on his father-in-law's fruit ranch, Muir decided to limit his travels. For roughly ten years, Muir devotes himself to being a husband to his wife and father to his two daughters in Martinez, California. |