Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

Other places named in his honor are Muir Woods National Monument Muir Beach John Muir College Mount Muir Camp Muir and Muir Glacier. "Muir has profoundly shaped the very categories through which Americans understand and envision their relationships with the natural world" writes Holmes. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas.