Sierra Club Bulletin, Volume 6Sierra Club, 1906 Includes section "Book reviews." |
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Alpine altitude Appalachian Mountain Club ascent basin beautiful birds Board of Directors boulders Bubb's Creek California camp cliffs climb COLBY Committee Conte Memorial Lodge crossing E. T. Parsons east falls flowers forest reserves Forestry Notes Fork of King's glacier Grand Cañon granite groves height Hetch-Hetchy Valley High Sierra Indian interest J. N. LE CONTE Joseph Le Conte King's River Cañon Lake LAKE CHABOT Lodge Committee maps Mazamas Merced miles moun Muir Nisqually Nisqually Glacier Notes and Correspondence party Pass peaks photographs pines PLATE Prof Puffball reached Redwood region Reports ridge Ritter road rocks San Francisco Shasta side SIERRA CLUB BULLETIN Sierra Nevada Mountains slope snow South Fork stream summer summit SUNSET MAGAZINE Tehipite Valley tion trail trees Trinity County trip Tuolumne Cañon Tuolumne Meadows Whitney wild WILLIAM FREDERIC BADE winter Yosemite National Park Yosemite Valley
Popular passages
Page 314 - the purposes of the Sierra Club, "to explore, enjoy, and render accessible the mountain regions of the Pacific Coast; to publish authentic information concerning them ; to enlist the support and co-operation of the people and the Government in preserving the forests and other natural features of the Sierra Nevada Mountains,
Page 256 - explore, enjoy, and render accessible the mountain regions of the Pacific Coast; to publish authentic information concerning them; to enlist the support and co-operation of the people and the Government in preserving the forests and other natural features of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Page 216 - from all the world. These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and instead of lifting their eyes to the mountains, lift them to dams and town skyscrapers. Dam Hetch-Hetchy! As well dam for
Page 36 - There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise. . . . The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their
Page 215 - Garden- and park-making goes on everywhere with civilization, for everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul.
Page 238 - Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver Thro' the wave that runs forever By the island in the river Flowing down to Camelot.
Page 259 - which the Congress of the United States sought by law to preserve for all coming time as nearly as practicable in the condition fashioned by the hand of the Creator—a worthy object of national pride and a source of healthful pleasure and rest for the thousands of people who may annually sojourn there.
Page 210 - Yosemite, for it is a wonderfully exact counterpart of the great Yosemite, not only in its crystal river and sublime rocks and waterfalls, but in the gardens, groves, and meadows of its flowery parklike floor. The floor of Yosemite is about 4,000 feet above the sea, the
Page 46 - Puyallup glaciers ; indeed, the ice in the latter is unusually pure and the crevasses unusually fine. The combination of ice scenery with woodland scenery of the grandest type is to be found nowhere in the Old World, unless it be in the Himalayas, and, so far as we know, nowhere else on the American Continent.
Page 212 - brows in the sky, their feet set in groves and gay emerald meadows, a thousand flowers leaning confidingly against their adamantine bosses, while birds, bees, and butterflies help the river and waterfalls to stir all the air into music—things frail and fleeting and types of permanence meeting here and blending,