Yosemite Meditations

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