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The John Muir Newsletter, Winter 1996/97, The John Muir Center For Regional Studies
The John Muir Newsletter, Winter 1996/97, The John Muir Center For Regional Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
Volume 7, Number 1 NEW °3> f\ND VARWIN God and Evolution in Nature by Shayne Zurilgen (Editor's note: The author, a senior in geology at the University of the Pacific, prepared this paper in the fall of 1996for an undergraduate history class, "JohnMuir and the Environment.") Ifred Lord Tennyson was looking into his microscope one day when he was moved to comment, "Strange that these wonders should draw some men to God and repel others."1 Tennyson was addressing the fervor surrounding Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. While he didn't really identify anyone in particular, Tennyson conceivably could …
The John Muir Newsletter, Fall 1996, The John Muir Center For Regional Studies
The John Muir Newsletter, Fall 1996, The John Muir Center For Regional Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
Volume 6, Number 4 NEW DNSERVATIONIST: Agriculture in California's Central Valley by Kevin S. Frazier ;:';:::::;:.'ij ; (Editor's note: our feature article this month was written by a senior at the University of the Pacific, the first recipient of the Rockwell Hunt Summer Research Scholarship for UOP undergraduates.) s I frequently drive through the California Central Valley from my home in Sonora to school in Stockton, my constant companions are expansive agricultural fields. Corn gives way to tomatoes which give way to sugar beets; orchards of walnuts turn to orchards of peaches or apricots; herds of cattle graze by the …
John Muir Newsletter, Summer 1996, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
John Muir Newsletter, Summer 1996, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
John Muir Newsletter summer 1996 university of the pacific volume 6, number 3 JOHN MUIR'S ATTENTION EPISTEMOLOGY by Richard Wiebe (Editor's note: Professor of Philosophy at Fresno Pacific College, Richard Wiebe presented this paper at a 1995 conference sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment). Talk of mysteries!—Think of our life in nature,— daily tobe shown matter, to come in contact with it,— rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! the so/M earth! the actual world! the common sensel Contact! Contact! Who are we? where are we? —"Ktaadn" from The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau …
The Importance Of John Muir's First Public Lecture, Sacramento, 1876, Steve Pauly
The Importance Of John Muir's First Public Lecture, Sacramento, 1876, Steve Pauly
Muir Symposium
This paper focuses on Muir's first public lecture and its importance as one of several turning points in his evolution as a public figure. The venue was the Congregational Church in Sacramento in January 1876. The lecture was the fifth in a series sponsored by the Literary Institute. Muir approached this task with fear, began poorly and with apology, finally recalled his topic, enthralled the large audience with his discussion and illustration of the current and ancient glaciers of California, and built enough confidence to agree to his second lecture, a few months later in San Jose. One of several …
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Conference Speakers Roster, University Of The Pacific
Conference Speakers Roster, University Of The Pacific
Muir Symposium
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John Muir Newsletter, Spring 1996, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
John Muir Newsletter, Spring 1996, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
John Muir N spring 1996 university of the pacific volume 6, number 2 JOHN MUIR AND THEBIDWELLS: THE FORGOTTEN FRIENDSHIP By Michael J. Gillis (Editor's note: this article was originally published in the Spring, 1995 issue oftheDogtown Territorial Quarterly, and reprinted here with the kind permission of its publisher, Bill Anderson of Paradise, California.. The author, Michael Gillis, is Lecturer in History at California State University, Chico. He and a colleague, Michael Magliaria, are working on a book-length study of John Bidwell, Chico's founder and most prominent citizen) The thirty-seven year friendship between John Muir and the Bidwells which began …