“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” Shepherd, naturalist, philosopher, traveller, mountaineer, writer, defender of the wild, environmental activist and immigrant, John Muir through his passion and poetry, was the driving inspiration behind the preservation of thousands of acres of American wilderness. His legacy is the wonderful US National Parks Service. (Taurus (the gardener) Sun at 0° (beginning) conjunct Vesta(legacy)) His nickname was John of the Mountain (Aquarius Rising, ruled by craggy Saturn and sky-god Uranus). Muir’s nature writing was widely read in the late 19th […]
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