Identifier: nationalparkspor1921yard (find matches)
Title: The national parks portfolio
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Yard, Robert Sterling, 1861-1945 United States. National Park Service
Subjects: National parks and reserves
Publisher: Washington, DC : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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when it first appearsbecause it carries sediment and powdered rock which, however, it soon deposits,becoming clear. But this brief picture of the Mount Rainier National Park would miss itsloveliest touch without some notice of the wild-flower parks lying at the base,and often reaching far up between the icy fingers, of Mount Rainier. Above the forests, writes John Muir, the celebrated naturalist, thereis a zone of the loveliest flowers, fifty miles in circuit and nearly two mileswide, so closely planted and luxurious that it seems as if nature, glad to makean open space between woods so dense and ice so deep, were economizing theprecious ground and trying to see how many of her darlings she can gettogether in one mountain wreath—daisies, anemones, columbine, erythroniums,larkspurs, etc., among which we wade knee-deep and waist-deep, the brightcorollas in myriads touching petal to petal. Altogether this is the richestsubalpine garden I have ever found, a perfect flower elysium. (96)
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Photograph by Curtis & Miller Mount Adams from Mount Rainier—Forty Miles Southward 651630—21—7 (97)

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