This shows a slideshow we Pod 12 created as part of our fulfilment of the John Muir Award. It explains who John Muir is. This is part of the Conserver Award. Done by the Multiple Intelligence School, Suva, Fiji Islands.

1. Pod 12, John Muir Award - Conserver
Multiple Intelligence School, Suva, Fiji Islands, 2014

2. Who was John Muir?
By Anika and Mercedes

3. You might know him from the:

4. You might know him from the:
... a project that helps the environment, named
after the “father of conservation” himself.

5. John Muir
• naturalist
• author
• philosopher

6. Born in Dunbar, Scotland, on April 21, 1838
Dunbar

7. He moved to America with his family in 1849 (at age 12)

8. John Muir and his wife, Louisa Strentzel

9. His daughters, Wanda and Helen

10. He had a love for
nature

13. First to establish a wildlife preserves in America

14. First to establish a wildlife preserves in America
Yosemite National Park

15. First to establish a wildlife preserves in America
Sequoia National Park

16. A few inspirational words quoted by John Muir...

17. “God has cared for these trees,
saved them from drought,
disease, avalanches, and a
thousand tempests and floods.
But he cannot save them from
fools.”
-John Muir

18. “There is that in the glance of a flower which
may at times control the greatest of creation's
braggart lords.”
-John Muir

19. Artist Andy Goldsworthy and many others have been inspired by John Muir

20. Some of Andy Goldsworthy’s work

21. Some of Andy Goldsworthy’s work

22. John Muir inspired Andy Goldsworthy who inspired us!

23. John Muir
• father or conservation
• inspires people around
the world to conserve
nature