Our National Parks, by John Muir

Published: Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901

Note: John teaches to respect conserve nature

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                               OUR NATIONAL
                                  PARKS
                               BY JOHN MUIR


                            BOSTON AND NEW YORK
                       HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
                      The Riverside Press, Cambridge
                                   1901




                                    TO
                          CHARLES SPRAGUE SARGENT
                       STEADFAST LOVER AND DEFENDER
                         OF OUR COUNTRY's FORESTS
                             THIS LITTLE BOOK
                        Is Affectionate Dedicated




PREFACE

In this book, made up of sketches first published in the Atlantic Monthly, 
I have done the best I could to show forth the beauty, grandeur, and all-
embracing usefulness of our wild mountain forest reservations and parks, 
with a view to inciting the people to come and enjoy them, and get them 
into their hearts, that so at length their preservation and right use 
might be made sure.

Martinez, California
September, 1901



CONTENTS

I. The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West   1
II. The Yellowstone National Park   37 
III. The Yosemite National Park   76 
IV. The Forests of the Yosemite Park   98 
V. The Wild Gardens of the Yosemite Park   137 
VI. Among the Animals of the Yosemite   172 
VII. Among the Birds of the Yosemite   213 
VIII. The Fountains and Streams of the Yosemite National Park   241 
IX. The Sequoia and General Grant National Parks   268 
X. The American Forests   331
APPENDIX [table of parks and their features, not in online version]
INDEX



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Sequoias, Mariposa Grove ... Frontispiece
Forest Reserves and National Parks in Western United States ... 2
  From a map furnished by the courtesy of the United States Geological
  Survey.
Pavement of Basaltic Columns Worn by Glacial Action, Yosemite National
  Park ... 86
Timber Line at Thousand Islet Lake, near Mr. Bitter, Yosemite National
  Park ... 100
Azalea Thicket, Yosemite National Park ... 146
One of the Kings River Fountains, Sierra Forest Reserve ... 210
View from Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park ... 228 
Yosemite Woods in Winter ... 250
Columne Cascade, Yosemite National Park ... 258
Young Big Tree Felled for Shingles ... 298
Loghouse of One Log, Giant Forest of the Kaweah ... 306
Road through the Sequoias, Mariposa Grove ... 350