*In our inaugural series of posts, "Classic Notes," we will revisit a number of issues our Blogger-in-Chief Diane E. Curtis previously published under the auspices of our Essential Housing line. Essential Housing was established in part to provide affordable, work force housing to urban neighborhoods in the process of revitalization.*
John Muir, the prominent Scottish-American naturalist, wilderness preservation advocate, and founder of The Sierra Club was born on 21 April 1838 in Dunbar, Scotland. Muir was instrumental in the preservation of American wilderness sites, particularly in the West, and helped save the Yosemite Valley and Sequoia National Park from development and destruction. As such, he is known today as the "Father of the National Parks."
But did you also know he's central to our company's mission and design aesthetic? All of the homes in our Founder's Collection are named for prominent preservationists and/or environmentalists, including Muir and many of his friends including Theodore Roosevelt and Ralph Waldo Emerson; and even a rival, Gifford Pinchot.
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."
~John Muir
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