"It is a vast wilderness of rocks in a sea of light, colored and glowing like oak and maple woods in autumn, when the sun gold is richest. While John was in Seattle, Louie wrote him a letter dated August 9, 1888. Over the years, that love has grown into a commitment to stewardship and a passion to share the delight of exploring nature with others. Dr. John Strentzel was born in Lublin, Poland, November 29, 1813. Miriam (died December 7, 1974) Galloway, Sarah Muir - (1836 - 1932). Around the same time, Louisiana fell ill and was bedridden for over 3 years. Refresh and try again. After he split ways with his travel companion, Muir visited the gigantic sequoias of the region and marveled at their incredible height. Helen died in Spokane, Washington, on June 17, 1964. He had a very strict and religious upbringing and was able to recite the whole of the New Testament and the Old Testament by . Muir was an adventurous and active child who loved playing outdoors. He struggled with writing yet recognized the power of prose and worked tirelessly in his "Scribble Den," his upstairs office in his Martinez home. He needed more time in the mountains, away from civilization. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . The doctor bought 20 acres of land and used his Hungarian vineyard knowledge to begin experimenting with a wide variety of grapes, fruit and nut trees, as well as ornamental plantings. John Muir was 76 years old when he died in a Los Angeles hospital on December 24th, 1914. Certainly, she was not inclined to camp out on an Alaskan glacier or even to take a walk in the hills nearby their Alhambra Valley home. "The sun shines not on us but in us." After three years in that area, they moved to Arroyo el Hambre (Valley of Hunger)* in 1853 and camped out until their first house could be built. Among her letters which encouraged John back to the mountains is the one from August 9, 1888, letter which he received in Seattle just after a climb of Mt. He was honored by the Lab School of Washington D.C., in recognition of his contributions and achievements and as an example for children with learning disabilities. He bought additional land and planted large vineyards and orchards that included Muscat, Zinfandel and Tokay grapes, and over 50 varieties of pears. ", 11. ", 8. He is a, a principal leader and innovator of the worldwide nature journaling movement. The ranch house has photographic reproductions of several of these, and the originals are in the homes of the descendants. And this is not the end of the world; we should just create a new and improved hypothesis. Mark Elbroch. Perrottet, Tony. Guided into the Yosemite wilderness by naturalist John Muir, the president went on a three-day wilderness trip that started at the Mariposa Grove, and included Sentinel Dome, Glacier Point, and Yosemite Valley among other points of interest in Yosemite National Park. John Muir's Father-in-Law. Voyage to California: landed in San Francisco, March 28, and walked across the valley; worked at ranch of Pat Delaney. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls." 14202, Download the official NPS app before your next visit. She spent the majority of her time at home, often helping her father by typing his manuscripts. - John Muir. Louisa Wanda Strentzel was born in Texas in 1847. "Of course, there were roses of all kinds, but the great thicket of single Cherokee roses were by far the sweetest; and there were jasmine, honeysuckle, lavender, lilies, wisteria, magnolias, and heliotrope. Muir's descriptions of glaciers and sequoias brought the beauty of nature to readers nationwide. "After a whole day in the woods, we are already immortal. "It's always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Because of his many impassioned articles that were being published, much of the public was persuaded and wrote letters to congress in support of Muir's beliefs, and other outside groups also lobbied congress for the establishment of a national park. The two Scots had differing opinions on many topics. After her husbands death, she moved to Spokane, WA. Here, Muir partnered with his father-in-law and managed a successful family fruit ranch. A month later, Congress designated Yosemite a national park. The Young Ladies Seminary (YLS) opened with 25 students in 1852, founded by local citizens. As it turned out, Willie and Johnnie, as they soon called each other, were born in the same year in Scotland. John (Jack) Muir Laws is a principal leader and innovator of the worldwide nature journaling movement. Shasta. The 1863 YLS catalog lists departments in English, Language (Latin, French, German, and Spanish) and Fine Arts (Music, Painting, and Drawing). John Muir Laws @JohnMuirLaws 39.8K subscribers Subscribe http://www.johnmuirlaws.com/ Home Videos Shorts Live Playlists Community Channels About Search Nature Drawing Play all Instructional. John Muir Laws, aka Jack, is a principal leader and innovator of the worldwide nature journaling movement. When Louie wasn't overseeing the daily duties at the ranch she was working on her garden around the farm house. Another son, Walter, who died in 2004, told an interviewer that he had every book written by his famous grandfather and many written about him by other authors. This piece requires considerable musical talent, and we can appreciate the skill on the piano which Louie possessed. The oldest son, Muir Funk, did not because his first name was Muir. As an educator and author, Jack teaches techniques and supports routines that develop these skills to make them a part of everyday life. More biographical information on William Keith, from the Sierra Club website. At the time, it must have seemed a pipe dream. Like her Victorian peers, Louisiana documented her experiences in letters and journals. The valley was completely destroyed and Muir was completely devastated by the results. He looks for mysteries, plays with ideas, and seeks connections in all he sees. We must all be willing to let go of our hypotheses as quickly as we make them, for fifteen feet down the trail, further evidence may disprove or current thinking. He wrote "only Uncle Sam" could save our country's land for future generations to enjoy, an idea that led to the creation of the National Park Service in 1916. Lyell came into view, "Keith dashed forward, shouting and gesticulating and waving his arms like a madman." That night, during the campfire discussion, Muir's main focus of conversation was not only the need for forest preservation but also his concern that the California State Grant of Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove, surrounded in 1892 by Yosemite National Park, be receded to the United States for inclusion in the park. "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Find (or start) a Nature Journal Club Near You! Louie Muir died on August 6, 1905, and is buried with John, her parents, a brother, a sister and Uncle Henry in the Strentzel/Muir cemetery about a mile from the National Historic Site. Another son, Walter, who died in 2004, told an interviewer that he had every book written by his famous grandfather and many written about him by other authors. Muir's conservation legacy lives on at the John Muir National Historic Site and in our daily actions. Proposed to Louie Strentzel; First Alaska trip with S. Hall Young; discovery of Glacier Bay, Muir Glacier. Mills had purchased property in Alameda County and in 1870 broke ground for Mills College there. A pacifist opposed to the Civil War, the twenty-seven-year-old Muir had left his family's Wisconsin farm the previous year and traveled to Michigan. "We all grieved for her," Helen told a reporter for the Pasadena Star-News. Soon Louie began to sell off the ranch property to lessen the burden. During his ten years on the ranch, he continued to travel when time permitted. He contributed articles on his research to numerous publications, gave college lectures on agriculture, and helped establish and lead state and local Grange organizations to promote agricultural interests. Clear rating. by. After that, in 1905, the Sierra Club fought for Yosemite Valley to go from being under state to federal control, and in 1906 the senate approved and allowed the valley to become part of Yosemite National Park. Shasta, Sierra Scene, Yosemite (on a cigar box lid), Mt. Rainier National Park established; member of Harriman Alaska Expedition. Later that became known facetiously as the Music Room. 2023 Sierra Club.The Sierra Club Seal is a registered copyright, service mark, and trademark of the Sierra Club. John Muir played many roles in his life, all of which helped him succeed in his role as an advocate for Nature. He has been journaling for decades, has written many books on nature journaling and is working tirelessly to bring nature into the minds and hearts of people across the world. Inspired by his luminary, wife Ann Foster, Tony traveled to the Maldives to paint dramatic equatorial sunsets. "JOHN MUIR's Yosemite." She came to California in 1849, the same year that John Muir was coming to Wisconsin from Scotland. John Muir Laws demonstrates how the artistic technique of cross-contouring lines give us an understanding of space and dimension in this landscape by Tony Foster. The family operated an inn and then a farm where Louie's father, John Strentzel, began horticultural experiments. Laws describes the science behind why leaves change colors and shares his favorite insights about this powerful piece. Start now: you can do this, and the world is waiting. | Alphabetical Index Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. Later in 1855 she paid $2495. Camping on the edge of Yosemite Valley, he was enthralled like never before. Son of the Wilderness, 16. With the inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt in 1901, there was finally a conservationist in the White House. Find a Nature Journaling Mentor Near You! John Muir: Prophet Among the Glaciers. John Muir was born in Scotland in 1838, one of eight children of Daniel Muir and his second wife Ann Gilrye. The Yosemite, 8. In 2009, he received the Terwilliger Environmental Award for outstanding service in Environmental Education. Each day each student was graded, and Louie's report from March 12, 1860, by Mary Atkins, survives. Probably Louie couldn't play the piano when he was working, and likely she did most of her playing while he was gone. He was the 2013 Natures Inspiration Honoree, Committee for Green Foothills. In 1877 Mary Atkins returned to Benicia from Ohio and reopened the old Randall house as a school for girls. Watch this 5-minute Introduction to learn how John Muir Laws first became aware of Tony Foster's art over thirty years ago, why it inspires and resonates with Laws, and what he plans for this video series. She worked for the school board and headed various women's clubs; was an active Sierra Club member and opened the family home to the citys youth. In particular, he discovered his love for botany and was heavily influenced by the writings of naturalist philosophers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Tomorrow I will have, I fell in love with the sound of the deep peacefu. His curiosity carried him further to California and Alaska, where he tracked the movements of glaciers. John Muir Laws provides some geologic context for this artwork by Tony Foster depicting an ancient stratovolcano high up in the Andes and reveals artistic insights about painting shadows and reflections. Unfortunately, her poor health made attending school difficult. The makeshift altar was decorated with white Astrakhan apple blossoms. Strentzel Muir Biography, Louie Muir's One and Only Trip to Yosemite, Privacy Policy/Your California Privacy Rights. And he was the 2010 Outstanding Learning Disabled Achiever. The two exchanged vows at her parents' home. John Muir's Father-in-Law. Jeanne Carr was an amateur botanist and lover of nature. But in 1882 Muir stated his opposition to the Grange. whom he married on April 14, 1880. Wanda: March 25, 1881 - July, 1942 (age 60) He joined the family for breakfast every morning, until his death in 1914. She stayed close to home because she wanted to, preferring not to be away more than a day or two. | What's New & About this Site, Home | Friends close to the Muirs described her as "the mainstay of the Muir household" and noted that "if not for her understanding and willingness to unselfishly forgo demands on John's time, the work he did for Yosemite Valley might have been diminished. It is part of the universal warfare between right and wrong." Steep Trails, 7. He is also a primary author and editor of the interdisciplinary curriculum: Opening the World through Nature Journaling. John Muir's Children: She bought numerous train magazines and hoped to one day become a mechanical engineer. Louisa Wanda Strentzel was born in Texas in 1847. You may download the file to your device or computer and listen to them offline. He also found time to be a school trustee and president of the Martinez Gas and Electric Company. He believed only government control and limitations would guarantee the protection of forests. He spent the summer of 1863 in the wilderness hiking down the Wisconsin River to the Mississippi along with two of his classmates. Floy Hutchings led Keith and two other painters to Muir who was at his cabin below the Royal Arches. What we know about Louie's music comes from her mother's diary and from some of Louie's sheet music returned to the John Muir National Historic Site by granddaughter Jean Hanna Clark. It . She stayed close to home because she wanted to, preferring not to be away more than a day or two. Eventually he relegated the girls' practicing to the soundproof brick room supporting the water tank at the rear of the house. There she met her husband, Buell Funk, and together they had four children. Helen: January 23, 1886 - June, 1964 (age 78) You'll think you're back in the mountains. Several Keith paintings hung in the Muir ranch house, including Yosemite, Tuolumne Meadows, Mt. Miss Mary Atkins became the principal in 1854 and was placed in full control in January 1855. By that time Benicia had four schools: the Episcopal School for Boys, the Catholic School for Girls, C.J. Laws is the founder and host of the Nature Journal Club, a family-friendly, intergenerational community that connects with nature through art and field journaling. Muir and Jeanne Carr met at the fair, where Carr was greatly impressed by Muir's inventions. He was eight at the time, and when his family next went . Keith, an epicure, also wrote that Muir was a poor provider on their outings, and that he tired of bread, dried meat, and sugarless coffee. He wrote several more articles which successfully built up his reputation in the scientific community and made him more and more into a public figure. He is buried beside Mrs. Muir in a small family cemetery about one mile south of the home. John Muir Laws offers his artistic and naturalist perepsctives about this coral reef artwork by Tony Foster, elucidating how the artist has achieved a rich, dynamic, colorful underwater scene with watercolors. Attends University of Wisconsin for 2-1/2 years, teaches school during the winter, forms a friendship with the Carr's. Here he gained knowledge of vineyard culture and the wine trade. That same year, Muir's wife died. John Muir took over as ranch manager, overseeing the 2,600-acre operation when the doctor's health began to fail. "After a whole day in the woods, we are already immortal." Once here, the family established a ferry, hotel, and store along the Toulumne River serving men heading to and from the gold fields. By now, Muir was seen as the head of the Western conservation movement and in 1892 he established the Sierra Club in order to "explore, enjoy, and render accessible the mountain region of the Pacific Coast" and to "publish authentic information concerning them" with the ultimate goal of conservation. ", John was by Louie's side when she passed away from lung cancer on August 6, 1905. Muir, however, wanted the area of the Yosemite region that was currently a state park to become a national one. In the summer of 1869, he went with his flock to the mountains. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. - John Muir, "Tracing the ways of glaciers, learning how Nature sculptures mountain-waves in making scenerybeauty that so mysteriously influences every human being, is glorious work." "It is by far the grandest of all the special temples of Nature I was ever permitted to enter." John (Jack) Muir Laws. Ross Hanna - lives in Dixon, CA (as of 2004) According to hers and John's daughter, Helen, "she was a devoted daughter and a great comfort to her parents in their later years. He is a regular contributor to Bay Nature magazine with his Naturalists Notebook column. On April 14th, 1880, at the age of 41, John Muir finally married Louie. "The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness." There is nothing that has a right to be considered besides this except the welfare of our children.". Muir seized the opportunity "to do some forest good in talking freely around the campfire," and the President, referring to John Muir, is quoted as saying "Of course of all the people in the world, he was the one with whom it was best worthwhile thus to see the Yosemite.". They spent three days exploring meadows and waterfalls and three nights discussing conservation around campfires. Louie became a music scholar while in attendance at the seminary, and her teachers boasted that she had a bright future ahead of her as a concert pianist if she so chose. He shares videos of the classes online with an international community of nature artists. He later recollected that he believed the experience was completely worth the risk. A naturalist, artist, scientist, and educator with more than 35 years of teaching experience, Jack is the author of numerous books including the Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling. He took a train across the isthmus and then went by boat once more all the way to San Francisco, California. San Francisco earthquake, repair of house, marriage of Wanda to Thomas Hanna. MasterFILE Premier. Stanley Muir (born Stanley M. Funk) - b. July 17, 1912. d. August 17 1962 Her doctor insisted that a drier climate was the only cure. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. He told the interviewer, "The more I study him and the things he did, the more amazed I am. Muir's popular writings caught the attention of President Theodore Roosevelt, who invited him camping in Yosemite. *"Mexican soldiers, disappointed by the lack of game, had dubbed this valley the Arroyo el Hambre, or valley of hungerIn April 1853, the Strentzels began acquiring lands of the deceased Don Martinez, until they owned a main ranch covering 856 acres in the valley and surrounding hills and an extended estate of 2,665 acres, including rangelands in the nearby Briones Hills. Here in Martinez, they cared for their 6 children and 3 adopted children, maintaining a close relationship with Muir. She bore three children with her husband, Dr. John Strentzel, whom she married in 1843: a daughter, Louisa Louie Elizabeth Wanda (1846), a son, John Johnny Erwin Burcham (1848), and another daughter, Carlotta Lottie (1851). Perhaps Dr. Strentzel's last years can best be described in his own words. "Mama loved flowers, especially fragrant ones," Helen recalled in her memoirs about her parents. After her sister Helens birth, Wanda adopted the role of protective older sibling. The Strentzel portraits hang in the County Museum in Martinez. "The battle for conservation must go on endlessly. His work intersects science, art, and mindfulness. Rate this book. Walter Muir (born Walter Muir Funk) - b. Wanda loved to hike in the hills, play the violin, and was an active member of Gamma Phi Beta Sorority at the University of California, Berkeley. Amazon Music Stream millions of songs: Amazon Advertising Find, attract, and engage customers: Amazon Drive Cloud storage from Amazon: 6pm Score deals on fashion brands Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Teachers Conference, Sun Shadows: exploring the solstice and equinox, Reviews- The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling, Reviews-The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada. The painting did rescue Muir from a dismal, aploogetic, beginning, and during the lecture, Muir pronounced it "as topographically correct as it is beautiful and artistic.". Flatt's Benicia College, and the Young Ladies Seminary. Both girls accompanied their father on walks in the nearby hills, and Muir named two of the peaks Mt. Muir urged people to write politicians and "make their lives wretched until they do what is right by the woods." on October 7, 1865. . That same year Dr. Strentzel was organizing the Alhambra Grange, an association of local farmers. On April 14th, 1880, at the age of 41, John Muir finally married Louie. , His father was extremely pious and stern and would sometimes physically abuse him. 5:15 Sketchbook Reviews John Muir Laws 37K. It was an honor to the school." MasterFILE Premier. He is a naturalist, artist, and educator who has dedicated his work to connecting people to nature through art and science. The third night of camping was at the edge Bridalveil Meadow in Yosemite Valley, where President Roosevelt was Muir's captive audience to hear a convincing plea for Yosemite wilderness and for setting aside other areas in the United States for park purposes. Muir and other concerned citizens also founded the Sierra Club, a nonprofit organization promoting outdoor recreation and environmental advocacy. ", 16. Congress favored the proposal while Roosevelt worked hard to destroy it. Muir's wife, whom he married on April 14, 1880. John Muir Laws points out his favorite painting details in this piece by Tony Foster from inside of Deer Cave in Borneo and gives us an appreciation for this unusual and particularly challenging subject! Smithsonian 39.4 (2008): 48. He kept several scrapbooks on Polish achievements and entertained many Polish artists and writers, among who were Henry Sienkiewicz, author of Quo Vadis, and the famous Polish actress, Madame Modjeska. For the next fifteen years after graduation from YLS in 1864 Louie was at home with her parents. He traveled by boat to Cuba with the ultimate goal of going to Brazil's Amazon rainforest. At YLS a neat personal appearance was important notwithstanding the admonition that "no student is to tarry before a mirror for more than three seconds." So much has been made of Muir's life that Louie's life and contributions are hardly known. "I might have become a millionaire, but I chose to become a tramp!" 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