“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” Sierra Club founding member John Muir penned those words more than a century ago as he launched a decades-long battle to advocate for preservation of the American West. … More than a century later, Muir’s legacy of environmental awareness lives on through his great-grandson, Reno attorney Ross de Lipkau, one of the state’s leading water rights experts.