Planetwalker, By John Francis And Julia Butterfly Hill

These two activist, John Francis and Julia Butterfly Hill started extraordinary and brave movements in their life time. They both wrote memoirs. John’s is named Planetwalker, which is about when he decided after an oil spill in 1971, to stop using automobiles for twenty-two years and stop speaking shortly after for seventeen years. Julia’s memoir is called The Legacy of Luna Julia, which is about when she wanted to stop Pacific Lumber and decided to sit in a thousand-year-old redwood in Humboldt County, California for about two years. These inspirational people both have similar stories and made an impact on the world
An oil spill in 1971, in San Francisco Bay changed the life of John Francis’s dramatically. In the memoir, Planetwalker, John

He would paint his surrounding on his journey. To help him pay more attention to details in the environment around him. John talked about how before his started walking he didn’t have the same perspective of the world. He would be oblivious of things around him. On his journey he gained a lot of knowledge about the different areas he walked through. After he was done traveling he got a whole new outlook on life and understood other people’s cultures better. The main reason he started walking was because he didn’t like the damage oil did to bodies of. He believed that we should take care of our earth. So he decided to start walking to not be reliable for the pollution. I could compare John’s life to Julia’s in The Legacy of Luna in the same way. The environment is very important to Julia. Julia stayed in a redwood in Humboldt County, California for two years to stop Pacific Lumber. The area next two Luna had already been destroyed because there was no soil left to hold in the mountains, and a part of the hill wiped out many houses. Julia risked her own like to stop deforestation and wanted to make a difference. Both John and Julia had the intention to save the earth and protect

They both have been in situations that almost costed them their life. For John when he traveled through North Dakota and was tenting in the snowstorm he said, “If I fall asleep, I imagine that I will not wake up” (Pg. 209). At this time John is risking his life to keep traveling on foot. Another time when he first started walking, he was held at gun point. These near death experiences changed Johns life and he once said, “How interesting it is that men seldom find the true value of life until they are faced with death.” (Pg. 34) Death was a common thought on his travels, but he pushed through it. Julia’s also had near death experiences. She was once harassed by a helicopter and also there was ten- day siege by company security guards that wouldn’t let people give her food. Also, the first few weeks Julia got really sick, but she risked her health for what she believed in. They both hand a lot of hardships throughout their movements, but they never gave up and were persistent on their