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It's the centennial of his death. John Muir died of pneumonia on Christmas Eve 1914 in Southern California. [1]

Would it be helpful to tag this with [sound] or something? The music autoplay took me by surprise.

Love the idea, but the slowness of the captions fading in make this painful to use.

I had the opposite reaction — thought the timing of the captions was perfect, encouraging the viewer to take their time and savor the images & words.

There is also an iPad app, made by John Resig.

Explore John Muir's Yosemite