We associate John Muir, one of the patron saints of the environmental movement, with majestic mountains out west – with Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada and Muir Woods, the redwood forest that bears his name near San Francisco – his legacy does not usually summon thoughts of the Southeast.
But that’s where his devotion to the natural world first took wing.
In 1867, Muir,...
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