The name John Muir Award is given to a number of environmental awards associated with ecological pioneer John Muir:
- John Muir Award, given for the best environmental film or video at the National Educational Film Festival
- John Muir Award scheme, a participative award scheme run by the John Muir Trust, Scotland
- John Muir Lifetime Achievement Award, awarded periodically (to a single person) by the John Muir Trust, Scotland
- Sierra Club John Muir Award, awarded annually (to a single person) by the Sierra Club, United States
Famous quotes containing the words john, muir and/or award:
“When John Henry was a little fellow,
You could hold him in the palm of your hand,
He said to his pa, “When I grow up
I’m gonna be a steel-driving man.
Gonna be a steel-driving man.””
—Unknown. John Henry (l. 1–5)
“Those lumbering horses in the steady plough,
On the bare field—I wonder why, just now,
They seemed terrible, so wild and strange,
Like magic power on the stony grange.”
—Edwin Muir (1887–1959)
“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)