Visions of Wild America - Softcover

National Geographic Society

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0792273591 ISBN 13: 9780792273592

Publisher: National Geographic, 1998

Synopsis

Celebrates the pioneers of wilderness preservation and those natural regions of America that they worked to save, profiling such early pioneers as John Muir and Chief Seattle and discussing the Florida Everglades, the work of Rachel Carson, the Wilderness Act of 1964, and the deserts of the Southwest. Original.

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Review:

John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Bob Marshall, Rachel Carson, Edward Abbey, Marjory Stoneman Douglas ... these are the voices of a wild America. Sharing pages with the glorious works of National Geographic photographers, the voices of these important conservationists are immortalized in Visions of a Wild America. In this book, award-winning author Kim Heacox weaves the incredible adventures, epiphanies, and successes of these visionaries along with their own quotes to help round out their stories:

"It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it."--Edward Abbey
"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts."--Rachel Carson
"The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?'... To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering."--Aldo Leopold
"Mountain parks ... are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life."--John Muir

Juxtaposed against photos of camas flowers coated in frost, sandhill cranes' migrating silhouettes, autumn fog in a Maine spruce bog, astonishing waterfalls, moss curtains, and owl's eyes, these stories of determination and preservation have an especially powerful impact. --Kathryn True

About this edition

• Publisher: National Geographic
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0792273591
• ISBN 13: 9780792273592
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200