Walking the Hudson, Batt to Bear: From the Battery to Bear Mountain : a Unique Guide to Walking the First 50 Or So Miles of the Proposed Hudson River Shore Trail |
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Contents
West 42nd Street to 125th Street p | 19 |
125th Street to the Little Red Lighthouse p | 35 |
The Little Red Lighthouse to Fort Lee p | 45 |
Fort Lee to Alpine p | 53 |
Alpine to the State Line p | 65 |
State Line to Piermont p | 75 |
Piermont to Nyack p | 87 |
Nyack to Haverstraw p | 95 |
LEG 10 Haverstraw to Tomkins Cove p | 111 |
LEG 11 Tomkins Cove to Bear Mountain p | 121 |
CODA | 134 |
REFERENCES USEFUL INFORMATION p | 145 |
GOOD RIVER GROUPS p | 151 |
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Alpine American Avenue Battery Park Bear Mountain beautiful boat brick Broadway building built called cars Center citizens cliffs climb close Continue cross delight designed east edge facilities fall feet ferry follow garden George Washington Bridge green greenway ground Haverstraw Highway Hook houses Hudson River Shore hundred Island Jersey Lake land leads leave Little living lower Manhattan Marsh miles Museum narrow nature Nyack Palisades parallel Park pass past path Penn pier Piermont pleasant Point power plant rail railroad reach River Shore Trail Riverside Riverside Drive Riverside Park road rock Rockland route runs ships Shorewalkers side stands stone Stony stop Street structure Terminal tower town tracks train trees turn Upper views Village walk walkers waterfront West wide winding woods World yards York City
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Page 147 - I WISH to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil, — to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.
Page 147 - ... outlined against the sunset as incommensurable to the figures of the topographer as life itself is to the quantitative table of elements which the analytic chemist proclaims to constitute vitality. Because of its size the wilderness also has a physical ambiency about it which most forms of beauty lack. One looks from outside at works of art and architecture, listens from outside to music or poetry. But when one looks at and listens to the wilderness he is encompassed by his experience of beauty,...