By: Dylan Peloquin, Alex Betz, Luke Dorsey, and Matthew Lamping John Muir By: Dylan Peloquin, Alex Betz, Luke Dorsey, and Matthew Lamping

Biography 1838-1914 Childhood Traveling National Parks "Then it seemed to me the Sierra should be called no the Nevada, or Snowy Range, but the Range of Light...the most divinely beautiful of all the mountain chains I have ever seen.“

“Man’s Place in the Universe” Main Points: He says that we believe the world was made especially for man. He does not believe this. Like authors we have learned about before he believes that we are a part of nature. The universe would be incomplete without man but it would also be incomplete without other creatures.

“Man’s Place in the Universe” He asks why God created all of this killing in nature between nature. He states that all these things are satanic, or in some way connected with the first garden. The end result is happiness.

Quote from reading “A Man’s Place in the Universe”: “From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals

John Muir Quote John Muir: “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

Relating to romantic / Transcendentalist Ideas Transcendent Power of Nature- God gave us nature so we should protect it Simplicity- the state, quality, or an instance of being simple Individualism- a social theory advocating the liberty, rights, or independent action of the individual.