Sierra Club Bulletin, Volume 9Sierra Club, 1915 - Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) Includes section "Book reviews." |
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Page 156 - Oh, the wild joys of living! the leaping from rock up to rock, The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair. And the meal, the rich dates yellowed over with gold dust divine, And the locust-flesh steeped in the pitcher, the full draught of wine. And the sleep in the dried river-channel where bulrushes tell That the water was wont...
Page 69 - For widening to not exceeding eighteen feet of roadway and improving surface of roads and for building bridges and culverts from the belt-line road to the western border from the Thumb Station to the southern border, and from the Lake Hotel Station to the eastern border, all within Yellowstone National Park, to make such roads suitable and safe for animal-drawn and motorpropelled vehicles.
Page 156 - How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy...
Page 285 - To explore, enjoy and render accessible the mountain regions of the Pacific Coast; to publish authentic information concerning them; to enlist the support and cooperation of the people and the Government in preserving the forests and other natural features of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Page 68 - These holdings seriously interfere with the proper administration of the parks and impair their usefulness and beauty in many ways. They can be extinguished either by way of direct appropriation for their purchase or by authorizing their exchange for lands or timber within the particular parks or within the national forest reserve adjacent thereto. The public timber so exchanged can, in many cases, be confined to dead or matured timber which can be removed from the parks without injuriously affecting...
Page 79 - This pamphlet contains a description of the general features of the Sierra Nevada and the Yosemite National Park and an account of the origin of the Yosemite and Iletch Hetchy Valleys.
Page 69 - For widening and improving surface of roads, and for building bridges and culverts, from the belt-line road to the western border; H D— 62-3— vol 135 53 from the Thumb Station to the southern border; and from the Lake Hotel Station to the eastern border...
Page 194 - ... the cumulative effect of the ten changes upon the beauty of the object is apt to be enormously more than ten times the effect of any one of them. In most of the objects with which we are concerned beauty is, and ought to be, an absolutely incidental factor. We want only that sort and degree of beauty which is compatible with a high degree of utilitarian efficiency. Some things, however, are of value wholly or primarily for their beauty, and if they have any direct utilitarian value it is utterly...
Page 8 - A more absurd theory was never advanced than that by which it was sought to ascribe to glaciers the sawing out of these vertical walls, and the rounding of the domes. Nothing more unlike the real work of ice, as exhibited in the Alps, could be found. Besides, there is no reason to suppose, or at least no proof, that glaciers have ever occupied the Valley or any portion of it...
Page 82 - Steps," and Valley "Treads." In Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, Vol. XLIV. 1910. Camp, Charles Lewis (Museum of Paleontology, University of California). Several contributions to University of California Publications in Zoology. 1916-1918. Eastwood, Alice. A Flora of the South Fork of Kings River from Millwood to the Headwaters of Bubbs Creek. Publications of the Sierra Club, No. 27. 1902.