He is likely to remain the one historian of the Sierra; he imported into his view the imagination of the poet and the reverence of the worshipper…. William Kent, during Muir’s life, paid him a rare tribute in giving to the nation a park of redwoods with the understanding that it should be named Muir Woods. But the nation owes him more. His work was not sectional but for the whole people, for he was the real father of the forest reservations of America.
