Visions of Wild America - Hardcover

National Geographic Society

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792229444 ISBN 13: 9780792229445

Publisher: National Geographic, 1998

Synopsis

The American landscape: Its wildness has made us inventive. Its vastness has made us bold. Its great teachers -- concerned voices -- have told us who we are and where, in the presence or absence of wildness, we might go. Complemented by more than a hundred photographs that capture our nation's preserved places, the uncommon, remarkable adventures and quiet epiphanies of our great conservationists are rendered anew, creating hope that we might one day see the land as a community, not a commodity. A living place to be honored and preserved.

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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: 0792229444
• ISBN 13: 9780792229445
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200