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On the Appreciation of Scenery

The National Parks of the United States

The Granite National Parks - Granite's Part in Scenery

Yosemite, the Incomparable

Yosemite, the Incomparable, continued

The Proposed Roosevelt National Park

The Heart of the Rockies

McKinley, Giant of Giants

Lafayette and the East

The Volcanic National Parks - On the Volcano in Scenery

Lassen Peak and Mount Katmai

Mount Rainier, Icy Octopus

Mount Rainier, Icy Octopus, continued

Crater Lake's Bowl of Indigo

Yellowstone, A Volcanic Interlude

Yellowstone, A Volcanic Interlude, continued

Three Monsters of Hawaii

The Sedimentary National Parks - On Sedimentary Rocks in Scenery

Glaciered Peaks and Painted Shales

Glaciered Peaks and Painted Shales, continued

Rock Records of a Vanished Race

The Healing Waters

The Grand Canyon and Our National Monuments - On the Scenery of the Southwest

A Pageant of Creation

A Pageant of Creation, continued

The Rainbow of the Desert

Historic Monuments of the Southwest

Desert Spectacles

The Muir Woods and Other National Monuments

A Pageant of Creation

Content Provider	Librivox
Author	Yard, Robert Sterling
Abstract	Robert Sterling Yard was an American writer, journalist, and wilderness activist. Born in Haverstraw, New York, Yard graduated from Princeton University and spent the first twenty years of his career in the editing and publishing business. In 1915, he was recruited by his friend Stephen Mather to help publicize the need for an independent national park agency. Their numerous publications were part of a movement that resulted in legislative support for a National Park Service (NPS) in 1916. Yard worked to promote the national parks as well as educate Americans about their use. Creating high standards based on aesthetic ideals for park selection, he also opposed commercialism and industrialization of what he called "America's masterpieces". In 1935, he became one of the eight founding members of The Wilderness Society and acted as its first president from 1937 until his death eight years later. Yard is now considered an important figure in the modern wilderness movement. In the preface to this book, published in 1919, he writes, "In offering the American public a carefully studied outline of its national park system, I have two principal objects. The one is to describe and differentiate the national parks in a manner which will enable the reader to appreciate their importance, scope, meaning, beauty, manifold uses and enormous value to individual and nation. The other is to use these parks, in which Nature is writing in large plain lines the story of America's making, as examples illustrating the several kinds of scenery, and what each kind means in terms of world building; in other words, to translate the practical findings of science into unscientific phrase for the reader's increased profit and pleasure, not only in his national parks but in all other scenic places great and small." (summary from wikipedia)
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Language	English
Part of Series	The Book of the National Parks
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Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	nonfiction history
Alternative Title	The Book of the National Parks - A Pageant of Creation
Content Type	Audio
Resource Type	Audiobook

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