John Muir earned his nickname “Father of the National Parks”. He founded the prominent conservation organisation, The Sierra Club. It was his writing that eventually saw the US Congress pass a bill to establish Yosemite National Park.
I found Yosemite to be an awe-inspiring place when I visited at the tail end of last year. The sheer size of El Capitan and the ageless sequoias stunned me.
This John Muir quote really summed up my weekend there: “But in every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”