Gentle Wilderness

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Gentle Wil der ne s s THE SIERRA NEVADA Photographs by RICHÁRD KAUFFMAN Textfrom JOHN MUIR If you believe nostalgia serves a purpose, you don't mind enjoying it now and then. Before knowing that it served a purpose and when very young, I stumbled across John Muirs My First Summer in the Sierra and began to feel nostalgic about a place I had not yet known, in particular the approaches to Yosemite and the high country above it. Muirs own sense of discovery was so vivid as to instill a sense of already having been there. Nearly a century after Muir's first summer, Richárd Kauífman has come along with color camera instead of notebook to recapture the feeling of discovery and the vividness in what Muir was to call the Rangé of Light. Here is the Sierra the way Muir saw it, the way others have seen it confirmed in First Summer; and here is the place I myself have felt at home in for nearly half a century, whether for only a week or two at a time, or a month or year or two-the way it was... Tovább

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Gentle Wil der ne s s THE SIERRA NEVADA Photographs by RICHÁRD KAUFFMAN Textfrom JOHN MUIR If you believe nostalgia serves a purpose, you don't mind enjoying it now and then. Before knowing that it served a purpose and when very young, I stumbled across John Muirs My First Summer in the Sierra and began to feel nostalgic about a place I had not yet known, in particular the approaches to Yosemite and the high country above it. Muirs own sense of discovery was so vivid as to instill a sense of already having been there. Nearly a century after Muir's first summer, Richárd Kauífman has come along with color camera instead of notebook to recapture the feeling of discovery and the vividness in what Muir was to call the Rangé of Light. Here is the Sierra the way Muir saw it, the way others have seen it confirmed in First Summer; and here is the place I myself have felt at home in for nearly half a century, whether for only a week or two at a time, or a month or year or two-the way it was then and is now. A cool Sierra wind blows through Mr. Kauífman s color photographs, a gentle wind. The light is that of the gentle hours, warm light on a friendly, inviting land. The gentleness of this Sierra wilderness is never cloying. Fear can be mixed with the exhilaration that the clifFs and torrents and storms bring. The passes come impressively high, your breath short, and your pulse rapid. But there is always enough gentleness in the Sierra, or soon will be when the storm clears; no other mountain rangé I know can outgentle it. Vissza