Scottish geologists

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 58. Chapters: James Hutton, Robert Chambers, John Muir, Geology of Scotland, Roderick Murchison, Patrick Geddes, Archibald Geikie, James Hector, Hugh Falconer, William Maclure, John Walker, James Keir, Iain Stewart, Robert Jameson, James David Forbes, Hugh Miller, John Clerk of Eldin, Joseph Thomson, William Bald, Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet, George Young, John MacCulloch, George Fairholme, Stuart Monro, Andrew Ramsay, David Alexander Brown, John Baird Simpson, John Fleming, Thomas Jamieson, James Wordie, James Geikie, Leonard Horner, Maria Gordon, Alexander Bryson, Thomas Davidson, James Nicol, Robert Dick, William Nicol, William Abbott Herdman, Henry Duncan, John Murray, Robert Bruce Foote, Alexander Murray, John Craig, Douglas Allan, John Horne, Henry Cadell, James Jardine, David Milne-Home, John Smith Flett, George Walter Tyrrell, Thomas Webster, Dougal Dixon, Stanley Bowie. Excerpt: John Muir (21 April 1838 - 24 December 1914) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, have been read by millions. His activism helped to save the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is now one of the most important conservation organizations in the United States. One of the most well-known hiking trails in the U.S., the 211-mile (340 km) John Muir Trail, was named in his honor. Other places named in his honor are Muir Woods National Monument, Muir Beach, John Muir College, Mount Muir, Camp Muir and Muir Glacier. In his later life, Muir devoted most of his time to the preservation of the Western forests. He petitioned the U.S. Congress for the National Park Bill that was passed in 1899, establishing both Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks. Because of the spiritual quality and enthusiasm toward nature expressed in his writings, he was able to inspire readers, including presidents and congressmen, to take action to help preserve large nature areas. He is today referred to as the "Father of the National Parks," and the National Park Service produced a short documentary on his life Muir's biographer, Steven J. Holmes, states that Muir has become "one of the patron saints of twentieth-century American environmental activity," both political and recreational. As a result, his writings are commonly discussed in books and journals, and he is often quoted in books by nature photographers such as Ansel Adams. "Muir has profoundly shaped the very categories through which Americans understand and envision their relationships with the natural world," writes Holmes. Muir was noted for being an ecological thinker, political spokesman, and religious prophet, whose writings became a personal guide into nature for coun