Book review: Yosemite Meditations

By Frosty Wooldridge

Book review: Yosemite Meditations by Michael Frye and Claudia Welsh

America’s first naturalist John Muir lived in Yosemite Valley for many years in various capacities as a sawyer, guide, mountain climber and budding glaciologist.

(Half Dome, Yosemite Valley, California, a mountain sheared in half by ancient glaciers that carved the valley into brilliant shapes with countless waterfalls that continue sculpting the valley into the 21st century.) Photography by Frosty Wooldridge

In 1906, during President Theodore Roosevelt’s term in public office, the “wilderness” chief executive conferred with Muir about the possibilities of  preserving such grand monuments to nature as national parks.  Their conversations led to congressional approval that ultimately led to America’s Yellowstone National Park. 

Yosemite followed suit.  Today, Muir’s efforts along with several other distinguished visionaries created 58 national parks.  The Grand Canyon may be the most expansive, but Yosemite garners top honors for the most dramatic waterfalls and glaciated rock formations in the world.

At one point, Muir wanted to feel how a tree felt during a storm. He lashed himself to the top branches to ride out a particularly savage rain and windstorm.  After that night, Muir contracted pneumonia, but lived to tell his tale about what a tree experiences in a ferocious tempest.  During his years in Yosemite, which means “grizzly bear” or “those who kill”, the majesty of the valley inspired profound prose, which cascaded out of Muir’s quill.

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness,” said Muir.

Decades later, other great wilderness romantics like Wallace Stegner said, “Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we pollute the last clean air and dirty the last clean streams, and push our paved roads through the last of the silence.”

In their extraordinary book, Yosemite Meditations by Michael Frye and Claudia Welsh, this 21^st century epic photographer renders a scintillating kaleidoscope of Yosemite’s many moods, temperaments and seasons.  Welsh provides poets, dreamers and romantics to lend their genius to the pictures of this book.

If you love the raw edge of nature, Yosemite Meditations creates a stirring in your heart, mind and body that cannot be explained. Your feelings cause you to come back time and again to absorb the pages as if you returned to a treasured lake to canoe its peaceful waters or hike a path that brings you peace of mind.  This book enchants you, a friend, lover or companion with its wilderness vibrations and visual delights.

Book:  Yosemite Meditations

by Michael Frye and Claudia Welsh, Steven P. Medley

Publisher: Yosemite Conservancy; www.yosemiteconservancy.oerg

ISBN# 978-1-930238-50-3

Price: $9.95

Available:  www.Amazon.com ; www.BarnesandNoble.com

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