ABSTRACT
Others of that time went through a similar shift in consciousness, and within decades they had made Muir their prophet for a new religion of nature that to varying degrees was postChristian. They formed a movement to preserve America’s remaining wilderness, in the mountains of Appalachia and the West, among forests, prairies, deserts, wetlands, and tundra, and not only in distant places but in and near cities, on the edges of agriculture, and along the banks of rivers or the ocean shores, and not only in the United States and Canada but also in other countries, from Muir’s native Scotland to Australia and Borneo.
