The Wild Gardens of the Yosemite Park.

"Going up the Sierra across the Yosemite Park to the Summit peaks . you find as much variety in the vegetation as in the scenery. Change succeeds change with a bewildering rapidity for in a few days you pass through as many climates and floras . as you would in walking along the lowlands to the...

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Published: The Atlantic Monthly, v. 86, no. 514 1900
Subjects:
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
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spelling ftunivpacific:oai:cdm16745.contentdm.oclc.org:p16745coll2/1789 2023-05-15T15:03:02+02:00 The Wild Gardens of the Yosemite Park. 1900-08-01 http://cdm16745.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16745coll2/id/1789 unknown The Atlantic Monthly, v. 86, no. 514 See also: no. 227 A; no. 237, pp. [137]-171; no. 341, v. 6, pp. 151-[187]; no. 483. 1900 ftunivpacific 2016-07-27T10:19:38Z "Going up the Sierra across the Yosemite Park to the Summit peaks . you find as much variety in the vegetation as in the scenery. Change succeeds change with a bewildering rapidity for in a few days you pass through as many climates and floras . as you would in walking along the lowlands to the Arctic Ocean." In reviewing the shrubs and flowers of each plant zone, Muir, the botanist, uses scientific names, but for each one he has words of appreciation and endearment. The flowers become "gentle mountaineers," "Nature's darlings," or "blessed companions." The white Mariposa lily is a ''plant saint, that every one must .love and so be made better." Muir, being the perennial tree lover, concludes his essay considering "the greatest of all the gardens"-the blossoming of the forest trees-"the noblest flowers in the world worth a lifetime of love work to know . " Other/Unknown Material Arctic Arctic Ocean University of the Pacific: Holt-Atherton Special Collections Arctic Arctic Ocean
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description "Going up the Sierra across the Yosemite Park to the Summit peaks . you find as much variety in the vegetation as in the scenery. Change succeeds change with a bewildering rapidity for in a few days you pass through as many climates and floras . as you would in walking along the lowlands to the Arctic Ocean." In reviewing the shrubs and flowers of each plant zone, Muir, the botanist, uses scientific names, but for each one he has words of appreciation and endearment. The flowers become "gentle mountaineers," "Nature's darlings," or "blessed companions." The white Mariposa lily is a ''plant saint, that every one must .love and so be made better." Muir, being the perennial tree lover, concludes his essay considering "the greatest of all the gardens"-the blossoming of the forest trees-"the noblest flowers in the world worth a lifetime of love work to know . "
title The Wild Gardens of the Yosemite Park.
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title_short The Wild Gardens of the Yosemite Park.
title_full The Wild Gardens of the Yosemite Park.
title_fullStr The Wild Gardens of the Yosemite Park.
title_full_unstemmed The Wild Gardens of the Yosemite Park.
title_sort wild gardens of the yosemite park.
publisher The Atlantic Monthly, v. 86, no. 514
publishDate 1900
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Arctic Ocean
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Arctic Ocean
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Arctic Ocean
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Arctic Ocean
op_relation See also: no. 227 A; no. 237, pp. [137]-171; no. 341, v. 6, pp. 151-[187]; no. 483.
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