John Muir is best known for his work in preserving the great natural areas of America. What is not commonly known is that he was also a great contemplative thinker - a sort of "wilderness mystic" - one who experienced union with the Divine through contact with the great natural areas of the Western United States. Muirs preservation efforts were motivated in large part by his experience of the spiritual dimension of Nature. It was Muirs earthy mysticism that motivated him to work so diligently for the preservation of wild places, which he viewed as "Gods First Temples." This book is a sort of...