Claire+J.+-+I+am+John+Muir

I am John Muir. I didn't really know my person very well, but I chose him because my sister went to John Muir Elementary school. I was just fasinated by the fact that I knew his name. I didn't really have prior knowledge of John Muir, because I didn't learned about him or researched about him. But I had some knowledge that he was a naturalist and was trying to preserve the nature. I also knew that he took a part in making Yosemite a national park. Some questions that came to my mind while researching about John Muir was that Did he benefit anything from protecting nature against the idea of building dams? Why would the Congress pass a law that Yosemite was a national park when the person who asked for it was Scottish? Why did John Muir claim Wrangell Island for Us land? Isn't his homeland Scottland? But the primary historical question was :


 * Why did he become a naturalist when he was more of an inventor?**

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http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5720

http://www.nps.gov/archive/jomu/quotes.htm

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/john_muir.html