Definition of John Muir

1. Noun. United States naturalist (born in England) who advocated the creation of national parks (1838-1914).

Exact synonyms: Muir
Generic synonyms: Natural Scientist, Naturalist

Lexicographical Neighbors of John Muir

John Marquand
John Marshall
John Marstan
John Masefield
John Maynard Keynes
John McCormick
John McGraw
John Mercer
John Merven Carrere
John Mill
John Millington Synge
John Milton
John Milton Cage Jr.
John Mitchell
John Moses Browning
John Muir (current term)
John Napier
John Orley Allen Tate
John Osborne
John Paul I
John Paul II
John Paul Jones
John Philip Marquand
John Philip Sousa
John Pierpont Morgan
John Q. Public
John Quincy Adams
John R. Major
John Reed
John Robinson Jeffers

Literary usage of John Muir

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Our Foreign-born Citizens: What They Have Done for America by Annie E. S. Beard (1922)
"John Muir was the eldest son of hard-working Scotch people and had few pleasures. He was sent to school when only three years old, his grandfather having ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"... Geographical Society of California, San Francisco; John Muir, Sierra Club, San Francisco; ... John Muir ..."

3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"LINNAEUS (1707-1778) BY John Muir JHE immortal Linnaeus — Carl von Linne — was born in Sweden, a cold rocky country now famous forever. ..."

4. The Chautauquan by Chautauqua Institution (1906)
"ADDICTED to "Wanderlust" from earliest boyhood the famous nature student, naturalist and geologist, John Muir, has given to the scientific world "the stuff ..."

5. Glaciers of North America: A Reading Lesson for Students of Geography and by Israel Cook Russell (1904)
"John Muir.—An anonymous article on the " Living Glaciers of Cali- ... 1872, and now known to have been from the pen of John Muir, is, so far as I can learn, ..."

6. Men who Conquered by John Thomson Faris (1922)
"XII The Making of a Naturalist The Boyhood Experiences and Inventions of John Muir AIRNS, you needna learn your lessons the nicht, for we're gane to America ..."

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