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"Yosemite Valley, to me, is definitely a sunrise, a glitter of inexperienced and golden wonder in a vast edifice of rock and space." (Ansel Adams) "A number of the natural world is appealing, some of it is terrifying, and some from it grosses us out. Modern people don't want to be dropped naked into a swamp. You want to tour Yosemite with our water bottles and G.P.S. devices. The natural world is a way to obtain happiness and fulfillment, but only once approved in the right dosages." (Paul Bloom) "If for an instant you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to the most notable of one of them, and run-down without the haggling, puttering hesitation, boldly jumping from boulder to boulder with even rate. You will then find your feet playing a tune, and quickly discover the music and poetry of the magnificent rock hemorrhoids - an excellent lesson; and everything Nature's wildness says the same account - the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of each kind - each and each is the orderly beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart and soul." (John Muir) The United States is packed with natural miracles, but few stay unspoiled by man approximately Yosemite National Recreation area: a 750,000-square-acre park near the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Despite being inhabited by people for nearly 3,000 years, the relatively distant spot helped ensure that even while America expanded western world, the Yosemite area avoided being resolved or exploited like so a great many other areas on the frontier.
