Dust of the Earth

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🗓️ 18 April 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks," legendary naturalist John Muir was far ahead of his time, holding ideals that many are just coming around to. Muir undertook a daring adventure in 1867 that led him to the path of natural enlightenment. He decided that he wanted to explore the world. He left his life in Indiana and walked one thousand miles to Florida. Muir trekked south through Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida with little more than a map, a compass, a brush, soap, and a change of underclothes. Muir later penned his adventure in "A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf," which has become a classic naturalist text set against the backdrop of the post-civil war south. In it, he makes loads of prescient observations, but none more arresting than his denunciation of the idea that God mad nature as man's personal resource factory. That perhaps, the creator mad nature for nature's sake, and the lives and feelings of every plant and animal matter just as much as our own.

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0:00.0	The America's National Parks Podcast is sponsored by L.L.Bine believes the more time you spend outside together, the better.
0:13.0	That's why they've partnered with the National Park Foundation
0:16.0	to help you find your park and get there with family and friends.
0:20.0	With more than 400 national parks in the U. there's beautiful surprises to be found in every corner of the country.
0:27.0	There's probably one closer than you think.
0:30.0	Be an outsider with L.L.B.
0:33.0	God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand
0:50.2	tempests in floods, but he cannot save them from fools.
0:56.3	John Meer.
0:58.8	I'm Jason Epperson, and today on America's National Parks.
1:03.0	A thousand mile walk to the Gulf with John Muir. Known as John of the Mountain
1:17.0	John of the Mountains and father of the National Parks,
1:20.3	Legendary Naturalist John Muir was far ahead of his time, holding ideals that many are just coming around to today.
1:28.0	Muir undertook a daring adventure in 1867 that led him to the path of natural Enlightenment.
1:35.3	Just a few years after the Civil War, after recovering from an injury at a sawmill, he
1:40.0	decided that he wanted to explore the world.
1:43.0	He left his life in Indiana and walked 1,000 miles to Florida
1:47.4	without any real direction or purpose
1:49.7	other than to study the flora and fauna.
1:52.8	Muir treked south through Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida,
1:57.5	with little more than a map, a compass, a brush, soap,
2:01.0	and a change of underclothes. He slept under the open stars when he couldn't find a family to take him in and
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