Teddy Roosevelt was no liberal.
Thanks to him we have the National Park System and all the square miles of game and fishing country.
An avid hunter and sportsman himself, he always supported the shooting sports and hunting, going to Africa himself to kill large game animals.
He was a patriot and a Great American.
Read about him in some unbiased sources.
I was referring to Muir, not Roosevelt. I reread my post and my wording was ambiguous -- sorry. I agree that Roosevelt was a patriot with America's best interests at heart. He did, however, sow some of the initial seeds that set the stage for the growth of gov't. For instance, Theodore's Square Deal was used as a stepping stone for Frankin's New Deal.