This delightful little book provides the ideal pause for contemplating the special qualities and values of Yosemite National Park, as well as other parks and wilderness. Each dazzling full-color photograph, many of them new for this tenth anniversary edition, is paired with an original quote or newly selected classic quote about nature, the environment, or America's national parks. Includes a new foreword by former Yosemite National Park superintendent Mike Tollefson and the insights of writers, scientists, poets, and leaders such as:
David Brower
Gary Snyder
Rachel Carson
Bernard Devoto
John Muir
Albert Einstein
Diane Ackerman
Terry Tempest Williams
Edward Abbey
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Cedric Wright
Marcel Proust
Shelton Johnson
Julia Parker
Pete Hamill
Sir John Lubbock
Dayton Duncan
Robinson Jeffers
Margaret Eissler
Wallace Stegner
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Baba Dioum
Margaret Murie
Rainer Maria Rilke