Great film! John Muir was a giant! Without his influence the world we live in today would be a very different place…even worse than it is. Back in the early 1970s I had the opportunity to live in Martinez California where Muir settled down for awhile to manage a grape vineyard owned by his wife's family. Driving to work each day I would pass by the house where Muir had once lived. A museum now. My girlfriend's grandfather purchased the land he built his ranch on from Muir and the building he used as a workshop had once been a blacksmith shed used by Muir to repair farm equipment and shoe horses. When I left California 3 years later the last place I visited was Muir Woods and walking among the giant redwoods I gained a sense of perspective regarding man's relationship to nature that remains with me all these many years later. Nature will ultimately survive, it's entirely up to us whether mankind will as well…
I believe it was John that convinced Teddy that national parks are important. If I remember correctly he took teddy through Yosemite and proved that the Yosemite was important and to be added to the national park system. I could be mistaken, but I’m pretty sure these two fellas helped create the national park system we see today?
Found out recently I'm related to John Muir through my maternal great great grandmother and his father. So chuffed to know he made a huge difference in a good way
Wonderful and very interesting journey. You had the very cutest traveling companion ever, Sam is quite a sweet fellow. John Muir was an incredible individual, thanks for sharing! :)
I feel in love with john muir and this video took the journey for me. Thank for your efforts to reconnect us to those places and his diaries. I love nature and muir spoke about it so poetically. Love your video so much.
Beautiful and interesting exploring the genesis of conservation. Nice touch leaning against the canoe at the end. I knew you’d shoehorn one in somehow!😉
hello, Yhanknyou🍑🍑🙃🍑 sounds like you are a kindred spirit… thank you for your remarks…. those redwoods near San Fran would not be there if The King Family hadn’t put them aside…..
I don't make a habit of saying my views. In fact, I'm a hermit and do what I can to not be rained on by the solutions of man. I'd like to try to answer the theme of this video. To understand, one must understand life. In particular, one must understand a predator. The word has a bad connotation it doesn't deserve,like "juvenile", which is associated with "delinquent". If you do not think you are a predator then go into the woods and ask the animals. If they ignore you, you are not a predator. If they run like hell, or hide, you are a predator. Your ability to judge distance is more proof. Prey see all around them for defense, like a rabbit,mouse, deer or turkey. Prey have eyes on the front of the face while prey on the sides. Predators are generally smarter because they need strategy whereas prey simply lower their heads for food. Imagine a lion needing to eat. It must consider wind direction, landscape, the health of the prey, direction the prey is heading, and many other considerations. We don't have a word for this. Lets call it "problem solving". Humans have taken this characteristic and for many years come out of Africa in waves to populate the planet BUT COULDN'T. They couldn't do it until some genetic diversity existed such that some were born that were totally obsessed with "problem solving". They lived, ate, and slept problem solving. In order to understand this, one must understand that the skill required to trap a fox, for example, is a much different skill than trapping a coon, or a beaver. What if on the other side of that mountain were all foxes? You would starve. The only ones who could make it were the ones totally obsessed with "problem solving". (Range is directly related to problem solving. Homo Naledi were poor at it and only killed from trees with rocks) If you are reading this your ancestors (and you) are totally obsessed with problem solving. They survived wars, plagues, famines all through problem solving. If they hadn't you wouldn't be alive. When they found Otzi the 6000 year old ice man, would you agree that all of his 115 items solve problems? How about all of the 10,000 items you have? Everything you own solves a problem-*your car, shoes,socks, pencil, tooth brush, etc. When you take a list to the mall, that is a list of solutions. When you buy a lottery ticket, it is in hopes that you win enough money so that you can solve ANY problem. We even solve problems when we die with life insurance. We cannot help it. When you got married, did you think that you were solving a problem? When you went to college? Name one item from Walmart that doesn't solve a problem? Education is ammunition to solve problems. You watch movies to see how others solve problems. Like a giraffe's neck got long, our brains got long on the characteristic of catching prey-"problem solving". Why have the trees been cut down and roads put it? Because they were considered a problem. Why do very intelligent people not believe in evolution? Because it doesn't solve their problem. I see the 3 top solutions to problems as money, religion, and time. They didn't exist before us and wont after. When I moved far back into the woods I thought I hated people. Then I realized it wasn't the people, it was their solutions. Sometimes when people solve a problem they think everyone should use that solution and make laws for that. That is what I hate.
Interesting trip > but John Muir oriented > doesn't seem so > meeting motorcyclists / bear hunters ?/ one guy talks about pulling out a cedar tree !!?? Whahhh ?
I think Muir didn’t understand that in christianity one of the things we are to do is to be caretakers nature. We don’t need to be lowered in value for nature to be valued. But we need to understand who we are.
Great film! John Muir was a giant! Without his influence the world we live in today would be a very different place…even worse than it is. Back in the early 1970s I had the opportunity to live in Martinez California where Muir settled down for awhile to manage a grape vineyard owned by his wife's family. Driving to work each day I would pass by the house where Muir had once lived. A museum now. My girlfriend's grandfather purchased the land he built his ranch on from Muir and the building he used as a workshop had once been a blacksmith shed used by Muir to repair farm equipment and shoe horses. When I left California 3 years later the last place I visited was Muir Woods and walking among the giant redwoods I gained a sense of perspective regarding man's relationship to nature that remains with me all these many years later. Nature will ultimately survive, it's entirely up to us whether mankind will as well…
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I believe it was John that convinced Teddy that national parks are important. If I remember correctly he took teddy through Yosemite and proved that the Yosemite was important and to be added to the national park system. I could be mistaken, but I’m pretty sure these two fellas helped create the national park system we see today?
Really awesome video. thanks.
Your movies are incredible. Thank you for sharing your journeys.
My father's name was John Muir, he wrote the VW book. John Muir is my uncle, and I look like his clone
Found out recently I'm related to John Muir through my maternal great great grandmother and his father. So chuffed to know he made a huge difference in a good way
I am Rebecca, the great grandchild of John Muir.
My father's name was John Muir, he wrote the first idiot guide, for VWs. John Muir the naturalist is my uncle
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Wonderful and very interesting journey. You had the very cutest traveling companion ever, Sam is quite a sweet fellow. John Muir was an incredible individual, thanks for sharing! :)
yes it is aremarkable work sir. you deserve salute as did sir john muir!
Great stuff! Didn’t recognize you without your canoe! Thanks for posting. I really like your videos.
I feel in love with john muir and this video took the journey for me. Thank for your efforts to reconnect us to those places and his diaries. I love nature and muir spoke about it so poetically. Love your video so much.
Great video! I'm reading his book on this journey right now. It's shameful a video of this quality doesn't have more views. Keep up the good work!
Really enjoy your videos, thank you so very much.
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Beautiful and interesting exploring the genesis of conservation. Nice touch leaning against the canoe at the end. I knew you’d shoehorn one in somehow!😉
I very much agree
hello, Yhanknyou🍑🍑🙃🍑
sounds like you are a kindred spirit…
thank you for your remarks…. those redwoods near San Fran would not be there if The King Family hadn’t put them aside…..
This might as well be 1976. I can't believe how things have changed.
“And their inclined to shoot people”
Whoa, wasn’t expecting that!
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that is one lucky doggy
If this was 1996 I wonder how old the lady who had a painting of herself as a child must have been?
" hold on & pray" Raper Reality, ironies never cease.
the climax was the empty john muir exhibit
I don't make a habit of saying my views. In fact, I'm a hermit and do what I can to not be rained on by the solutions of man. I'd like to try to answer the theme of this video.
To understand, one must understand life. In particular, one must understand a predator. The word has a bad connotation it doesn't deserve,like "juvenile", which is associated with "delinquent". If you do not think you are a predator then go into the woods and ask the animals. If they ignore you, you are not a predator. If they run like hell, or hide, you are a predator.
Your ability to judge distance is more proof. Prey see all around them for defense, like a rabbit,mouse, deer or turkey. Prey have eyes on the front of the face while prey on the sides. Predators are generally smarter because they need strategy whereas prey simply lower their heads for food.
Imagine a lion needing to eat. It must consider wind direction, landscape, the health of the prey, direction the prey is heading, and many other considerations. We don't have a word for this. Lets call it "problem solving". Humans have taken this characteristic and for many years come out of Africa in waves to populate the planet BUT COULDN'T. They couldn't do it until some genetic diversity existed such that some were born that were totally obsessed with "problem solving". They lived, ate, and slept problem solving.
In order to understand this, one must understand that the skill required to trap a fox, for example, is a much different skill than trapping a coon, or a beaver. What if on the other side of that mountain were all foxes? You would starve. The only ones who could make it were the ones totally obsessed with "problem solving". (Range is directly related to problem solving. Homo Naledi were poor at it and only killed from trees with rocks)
If you are reading this your ancestors (and you) are totally obsessed with problem solving. They survived wars, plagues, famines all through problem solving. If they hadn't you wouldn't be alive. When they found Otzi the 6000 year old ice man, would you agree that all of his 115 items solve problems? How about all of the 10,000 items you have? Everything you own solves a problem-*your car, shoes,socks, pencil, tooth brush, etc. When you take a list to the mall, that is a list of solutions. When you buy a lottery ticket, it is in hopes that you win enough money so that you can solve ANY problem. We even solve problems when we die with life insurance. We cannot help it. When you got married, did you think that you were solving a problem? When you went to college? Name one item from Walmart that doesn't solve a problem?
Education is ammunition to solve problems. You watch movies to see how others solve problems.
Like a giraffe's neck got long, our brains got long on the characteristic of catching prey-"problem solving".
Why have the trees been cut down and roads put it? Because they were considered a problem.
Why do very intelligent people not believe in evolution? Because it doesn't solve their problem.
I see the 3 top solutions to problems as money, religion, and time. They didn't exist before us and wont after.
When I moved far back into the woods I thought I hated people. Then I realized it wasn't the people, it was their solutions. Sometimes when people solve a problem they think everyone should use that solution and make laws for that. That is what I hate.
Interesting trip > but John Muir oriented > doesn't seem so > meeting motorcyclists / bear hunters ?/ one guy talks about pulling out a cedar tree !!?? Whahhh ?
I think Muir didn’t understand that in christianity one of the things we are to do is to be caretakers nature. We don’t need to be lowered in value for nature to be valued. But we need to understand who we are.