God's Wilds
Subtitle: John Muir's Vision of Nature (Environmental History Series)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: March 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781585441433
Subjects: Biography: general; History of specific subjects; NATURAL HISTORY, COUNTRY LIFE & PETS; Religion: general; The Environment; Nature/Ecology; Ecology; Philosophy Of Biology; Nature; Business / Economics / Finance; USA; Development - Sustainable Development; 1838-1914; Muir, John,; Philosophy of nature
Description: "In "God's Wilds" John Muir found beauty, inspiration, and the courage to battle governmental powers for the preservation of natural landscapes. Through his writing and his activism (as founding president of the Sierra Club), countless others have also found a call to enjoy and preserve the natural world. In an original view of Muir, Dennis Williams traces Muir's view of nature and his moral precepts for conservation to the nineteenth-century Calvinism in which he was raised."--BOOK JACKET.