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 Yellowstone: First of the Last Wild Places
 

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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
First of The Last Wild Places
George B. Robinson
64 pages. Oversized 10”x13”
 

This stunningly beautiful, oversized book is lavishly illustrated with breathtaking color imagery by America’s leading landscape photographers. In addition to the stunning photography, the book also includes detailed maps of the park and region and insightful, heartfelt narratives detailing the park’s natural and human histories.

Yellowstone is both a real place, and a state of mind. It is a powerful elixir for me—the kind of place where author Barry Lopez has suggested that I can renegotiate my contracts with Nature. Because I have worked in national parks my entire life, I feel a special kinship with Yellowstone, and I am grateful for its gifts to me.

...Practitioners of the ancient Chinese art of feng shui believe that the spirit or atmosphere of a place influences our physical and emotional well-being. Feng shui masters are sensitive to the essence of things, and they manipulate, combine, and blend parts of living and working spaces to enhance their influence on people. In Yellowstone, natural process is like a feng shui master, arranging all of the elements in the house of nature in the most harmonious way. In these mountains, nature has woven a complex fabric of shapes, hard and soft, large and small; a network of lines crossing lines; angles folded upon angles; circles within circles; a full sprectrum of colors; the basic pattern of natural order that Zen philosophers refer to as li.

...Animals, plants, and the ecological processes that bind them together neither see, nor respect, the boundaries that people have drawn. Acknowledging these ecological truths, scientists and resource managers have increasingly looked beyond the park’s legal boundaries for relationships and connections. With the park as a central element, they have defined a Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem—a description that aptly conveys a sense of both the remarkable size and the great significance of the area...

—From “An Uncommon Gift” by George B. Robinson

64 pages. Oversized 10”x13”

Yellowstone: First of The Last Wild Places. by George B. Robinson.  ISBN 1-58071-033-6. #SIER2667 $9.95
 

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