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Muir biographer Steven Holmes notes that Muir used words like " glory " and " glorious " to suggest that light was taking on a religious dimension: " It is impossible to overestimate the importance of the notion of glory in Muir's published writings, where no other single image carries more emotional or religious weight ," adding that his words " exactly parallels its Hebraic origins ," in which biblical writings often indicate a divine presence with light, as in the burning bush or pillar of fire, and described as " the glory of God.
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Muir and biographer
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.
According to author William Anderson, Muir exemplified " the archetype of our oneness with the earth ", while biographer Donald Worster says he believed his mission was "... saving the American soul from total surrender to materialism.
According to Muir biographer Bonnie Johanna Gisel, the Carrs recognized his " pure mind, unsophisticated nature, inherent curiosity, scholarly acumen, and independent thought.
Muir and Holmes
" Muir has profoundly shaped the very categories through which Americans understand and envision their relationships with the natural world ," writes Holmes.
During his career as writer and while living in the mountains, Muir continued to experience the " presence of the divine in nature ," writes Holmes From Travels in Alaska: " Every particle of rock or water or air has God by its side leading it the way it should go ; The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness ; In God's wildness is the hope of the world.
Muir often used the term " home " as a metaphor for both nature and his general attitude toward the " natural world itself ," notes Holmes.
Muir and notes
But as Muir became attached to the American natural landscapes he explored, Williams notes that he began to see another " primary source for understanding God: the Book of Nature.
During his first summer in the Sierra as a shepherd, Muir wrote field notes that emphasized the role that the senses play in human perceptions of the environment.
Starr's final notes were compiled and edited by his father into " Starr ’ s Guide to the John Muir Trail and the High Sierra Region " which was published a year after his death by the Sierra Club.
Muir pointedly notes, " By systematically pursuing the parallels between rhetorical persuasion and erotic seduction, Pallavicino demonstrates how the high art of rhetoric has the same instrumental character as the lowly deceptions of the prostitute.
Il Divortio became a sensation in Italy ( where Muir notes it was sold " under the counter "), and was plagiarized in Protestant countries, where German, Swedish, French, Dutch and English translations appeared.
Muir and used
In his 1969 counterculture Volkswagen repair manual, How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step-By-Step Procedures for the Complete Idiot, John Muir instructs prospective used VW buyers to " grok the car " before buying.
He used the term as early as 1871, while in 1869, Thomas Muir, then of the University of St Andrews, vacillated between rad, radial and radian.
The solution, according to Muir, was to pour labor into the iron, working it into a quality of wrought iron so high that it could be used even for gun barrels.
Through TIFH Muir and Norden reinvented British post-war radio comedy — amongst other influences, it was one of the first shows with a significant segment consisting of parody of film and book styles, later used extensively in programmes such as Round the Horne and many television programmes.
The parody sketch, previously used in stage revues but brought to radio by Muir and Norden for Take It From Here, was very influential on comedy shows such as Round The Horne and many television programmes.
The malted barley used in production comes from Muir of Ord.
The vehicle created for Bentley and Edwards, Take It From Here, was written by Muir and Norden from 1948 until 1959 ; a last series in 1960 used other writers.
For TIFH, Muir and Norden wrote the phase, " Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me ", later used by Kenneth Williams in Carry on Cleo.
A similar format to The Frank Muir Book was used in his BBC radio series Frank Muir Goes Into ..., in which Alfred Marks read the quotations, linked verbally by Muir.
As late as 1867, John Muir — in his book A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf — used the word " Alleghanies " in referring to the southern Appalachians.
The first name used by European settlers was Hunterhill, named after a property owned by Thomas Muir ( 1765 – 1799 ), a Scottish political reformer.
When the team returns from the next level, they learn that Doctor Doom was waiting for her at Muir Island and used the powers he stole from Odin to corrupt her into an evil version of herself.
John Muir encountered Fresno Dome, then known by its local name of Wamello, in the 1870s, and used its summit to locate Fresno Grove ( now known as Nelder Grove ).
Muir demonstrates the close personal ties and professional alliances between Simeon North and neighboring mechanics mass-producing wooden clocks to argue that the process for manufacturing guns with interchangeable parts was most probably devised by North in emulation of the successful methods used in mass-producing clocks.
Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas arguably the most militarily powerful man in Scotland, and a key part of the Duke of Albany's administration, used the pretext of Nisbet Muir to lead a punitive expedition into England.
Muir used various found objects as part of his percussion repertoire.
Muir has often used the same treatment to show goings-on at the United Nations and the New York Times.
There Proteus possessed the young girl and used her to send some of the X-Men to Muir Island where he turns her into a psychic magnet, so she could collect the remains of his fragments.
Muir used Liberty textiles in many of her designs.
Muir used the best quality fabrics, working in silk, cashmere, jersey and crepe, with a focus on form and fluidity.
Muir and words
Some, like Sir Denis Bray, find the repetition of the words and rhymes to be a " serious technical blemish ", while others, like Kenneth Muir, think " the double use of ' state ' as a rhyme may be justified, in order to bring out the stark contrast between the Poet's apparently outcast state and the state of joy described in the third quatrain.
During the war, British humourist Frank Muir, serving in the army, reported a broken down vehicle over his radio with the words " The Commer has come to a full stop.
In another recorded example, by the Aeolian Quartet in 1976, poetic readings were substituted for the " words ", read by Peter Pears ; these readings were from John Donne ( Introduction ), George Herbert ( Adagio ), Robert Herrick ( Grave e cantabile ), Anon ( 15th century ) ( Grave ), Edith Sitwell ( Largo ), Edwin Muir ( Adagio ) and David Gascoyne ( Lento ), and the final Largo and Earthquake completed the performance.
La Retorica delle puttane ( 1643 ) proved to be a step too far, and in the autumn of 1643 Pallavicino had to flee Venice for Bergamo, where he completed the first volume of his last work, Il Divortio celeste (" The Celestial Divorce "), published in 1643, which Muir reports " came to be known, in the words of a contemporary, as ' superior to all others in impiety and blasphemies against the Roman Church.
Muir and like
Thoreau also influenced naturalists like John Burroughs, John Muir, E. O. Wilson, Edwin Way Teale, Joseph Wood Krutch, B. F. Skinner, David Brower and Loren Eiseley, whom Publishers Weekly called " the modern Thoreau.
This in part reflects the absence of wilderness areas in heavily cultivated Europe, as well as a longstanding interest in laissez-faire government in some countries, like the UK, leaving it as no coincidence that John Muir, the British-born founder of the National Park movement ( and hence of government-sponsored conservation ) did his sterling work in the USA, where he was the motor force behind the establishment of such NPs as Yosemite and Yellowstone.
It was described by critic Steve Huey as " Fast, furious, and funny ... Mike Muir proves himself an articulate lyricist and commentator, delving into subjects like alienation, depression, and Social nonconformity | nonconformist politics with intelligence and humor.
It was a companion program to My Word !, and like that show featured comic writers Denis Norden and Frank Muir.
And for Muir, Emerson's visit came like a laying on of hands.
While most of his battles were with timber companies that he thought had too narrow a time horizon, he also battled the forest preservationists like John Muir, who were deeply opposed to commercializing nature.
Marvel stationed the team on the fictitious Muir Island, off the coast of Scotland, and tied the series closer to the X-Men family, casting off most Captain Britain-related elements entirely, in addition to the characters that did not have close ties to the X-Universe ( like Kylun and Feron ).
Frank Muir was also, like Norden, a contestant on the My Word!
Other persons arrested in relations to the political activities of the Edinburgh Society of the Friends of the People and associated groups like The Dundee Friends of Liberty were Thomas Muir, William Skirving, Maurice Margarot and Joseph Gerrald.
Weinshank, as Muir revealed in her memoirs, not only spoke like a hoodlum but was one of the Chicago mobsters who later were gunned down in the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
MacDiarmid's " crusade " brought along other writers and poets, like Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Edwin Muir ; but this literary renaissance lasted only for about ten years.
Poulson's generosity drew the comment from Muir Hunter QC during the bankruptcy proceedings that " n fact, Mr Poulson, you were distributing largesse like Henry VIII ".
He was a regular contributor to the epoch-making periodical The New Age ( the author of the column " World Affairs "), alongside Ezra Pound, and according to Edwin Muir, Mitrinović " has erupted with wild and profound contemplations ... not looking several ages ahead, like Shaw or Wells, but several millennia ahead.
" On his advice I read The Craft of Fiction by Mr Percy Lubbock, from which I learned that the only way to write novels was like Henry James ; after that I read Aspects of the Novel by Mr E M Forster, from which I learned that the only way to write novels was like Mr E M Forster ; then I read The Structure of the Novel by Mr Edwin Muir, from which I learned nothing at all.
But, like John Muir before him, and Ansel Adams after, it was the American West that most appealed to his heart.
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