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"As a journalist, advocate, and professor, Michael Frome has spent decades engaged with conservation topics and has taken particular interest in America's national parks. He draws on this experience and knowledge to address what remains to be done in order to truly value and preserve these special places. Part memoir, part history, and part broadside against those who would diminish this heritage, Rediscovering National Parks in the Spirit of John Muir, through thoughtful reflections and ruminations, bears witness to the grandeur of our parks and to the need for a renewed sense of appreciation and individual responsibility for their care. In recollections of his encounters and conversations with key people in national park history, Frome discusses park politics, conflicts between use and preservation, and impacts of commercialization. He proposes a dedicated return to the true spirit in which the parks were established, in the manner of John Muir. He advocates maintaining these lands as wild sanctuaries, places where we can find inspiration, solitude, silence, balance, and simplicity, reminding us why we must preserve our national treasures and why we need to connect with the deeper values they hold"--
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Conservation and restoration, Description and travel, Nature conservation, Conservationists, Influence, Environmental conditions, Government policy, National parks and reserves, Biography, History, NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection, National parks and reserves, united states, United states, environmental conditions, United states, description and travelPeople
John Muir (1838-1914), Michael FromePlaces
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Rediscovering National Parks in the Spirit of John Muir
2015, University of Utah Press
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