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Yellowstone Wish You Were Here©
Book combines a short, yet concise essay on the park,
along with poetry and stunning photography which give
the visitor a well-rounded view of the park.
High
in the northern Rockies, astride the spine of the continent,
lies a treasured “island.” It is a work
of both nature and people.
Fashioned from the primal elements by a coalition of
natural forces, it has been shaped into a place of many
splendors: deep, icy-cold lakes; clear rivers, gentle
cataracts, and thunderous cascades; high, barren mountains
and forested plateaus; precipitous canyons stained by
minerals; glacially rounded valleys and verdant meadows;
and steamy, sulfurous emanations from the underground.
It is a landscape energized by a volcanic heart.
This
mountain “island” is called Yellowstone
National Park.
...Nature has animated it with blood, bone, sinew; tooth
and claw; green and woody tissue; fur, feather, and
scale; and countless boneless bodies and microorganisms.
...The
seasons change; bison and elk and grizzlies roam the
land unfettered; rainbow trout labor upstream to spawn
a new generation and die; bald eagles and great gray
owls swoop down on their prey; green, gray, and reddish-brown
lichens cling tenaciously to rocks like reefs in Lilliput;
geysers erupt in columns of iridescent steam; people
come and people go; still the long march of geologic
time, natural process, and human history is unfinished.
The future, as always, is uncertain. But, at least for
our moment in geologic time, we can be happy in the
knowledge that this kingdom we treasure, and all that
it is and means to each of us, is still here. We can
hope that the wisdom of its wildness will endure, and
we can be proud that it has been the model for similar
places in more than 130 countries around the world.
—From “A Place of Many Splendors”
by George B. Robinson
YELLOWSTONE:
The Cycle of The Seasons
A
Place of Many Splendors
George B. Robinson; poetry by Lynn Wilson
96 pages. 8”x7.375”
ISBN 1-939365-31-6
$12.95 
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