gnawing at me a bit too much‚ penetrating and poisoning my core. “Get in your car right now and drive the six hours to meet us in Yosemite!” I hear Brandon yelling enthusiastically from San Francisco when I reluctantly play back the voicemail message. “We’re gonna do some camping‚ and climbing‚ maybe Half Dome. Call me back!” I haven’t visited Yosemite National Park since senior year of high school‚ but I’ve wanted to hike to the top of Half Dome ever since a girl‚ whom I secretly wanted to date
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Both of these men spent most of their lifetime defending the natural resources and the wildlife around the world. John Muir is one of California’s most important historical personalities. Born in Scotland‚ he has been called “The Father of our National Parks‚” “Wilderness Profit‚” and “Citizen of the Universe.” As a wilderness explorer‚ his exciting adventures in the Sierra Nevada and Alaska’s glaciers led him searching for nature’s beauty. Gifford Pinchot was born to a wealthy family on August 11
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Valley is a glacially formed valley in the northwestern corner of Yosemite National park in California. Yosemite was declared a national park in the late 1800’s by congress to protect this valuable wilderness for all people. The debate was between John Muir and Gifford Pinchot. Muir was against the dam and Pinchot was for it. Muir founded the Sierra Club and was one of the leading advocates for the creation of the U.S. national park system. Pinchot was one of the first scientific foresters (head of
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Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf and Abbey in a chapter titled Polemic: Industrial Tourism and the National Parks channel anger and frustration at the environmental policies of their time into literature that argues fervently for preservation of national parks and other areas of wilderness. In Hetch Hetchy Valley‚ Muir reverently describes in vivid detail the beautiful landscape of a river valley in Yosemite called the Hetch Hetchy Valley‚ condemning anyone who supports a government plan to dam the Hetch
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how he won the hearts of many with his beautiful works of art. Ansel Adams was a very talented photographer who captured beautiful photographs from day one. He had many accomplishments in his lifetime such as creating the Zone System‚ saving National Parks‚ working as an environmentalist and more. Adams was born into an upper-class San Francisco family in 1902. He was an only child and as a boy‚ he had no friends (“Ansel Adams”). He grew up among sand dunes and the sea cliffs‚ developing a love
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Adams has been visionary in his efforts to preserve this country ’s wild and scenic areas‚ both on film and on earth. Drawn to the beauty of nature ’s monuments‚ he is regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself‚ and by photographers as a national institution. It is through his foresight and fortitude that so much of America has been saved for future Americans." Ansel Adams has long been hailed as a master of photography. Environmentalist and photographer‚ he was born February 20th‚ 1902
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years‚ I never believed that it would never happen. About six years ago my little brother‚ mother‚ my father and I went on the biggest trip we had ever taken. It was pretty amazing! We went to Yosemite National Park in a rented car. In Yosemite we stayed at a beautiful location in the middle of the National Park. We stayed there for three days‚ and drove down California’s coast through Monterey to Los Angeles‚ and then we flew home. That was an amazing trip! But still‚ after that trip I still longed
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Famous photagragher paper Ansel Adams was born on February 20‚ 1902‚ in beautiful San Francisco‚ California. Adams grew to be a great inspiring person as a photographer of the American West‚ particularly Yosemite National Park. He used his work to promote the conservation of wilderness areas. His outstanding black-and-white images helped to establish photography among fine arts. He died in Monterey‚ California‚ on April 22‚ 1984 as one of the greatest landscape photagrghers who ever lived
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black and white in his photographs is amazing to me. The one thing that amazes me the most about Ansel Adams is even though he does not use color in his photographs‚ his work never looks the same. I understand that anyone could travel to Yosemite National Park to photograph Half Dome but no matter how many pictures that you take not one of those pictures will be an exact copy of Ansel Adams Half Dome. I also enjoy how Ansel Adams uses pure straight photography‚ there is so much more excitement
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nature. As we know‚ the experience and acquisition in the young age affects to people when they form their character. I think that Randy’s storong devotion to protecting the wilderness is from his circumstance of childhood. While he was living in the Yosemite valley with family‚ he used all space around him as a place to learn something. As he was just feeling the flower scent‚ he realized that how the small flower could bear and survive in harsh environment. I think that like the book says‚ his father
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