Words of the Earth new

Pdf / English / 93 pages / 1960 San Fran / 21.2 MB

This is perhaps my favorite book of all time. I bought it in 1966 in Yosemite Valley, having spent the summer working at the high camps. I've returned to it time & time again in the almost 50 years since. The photography and the words never cease to capture and describe feelings deep within our hearts. This is one of my favorite passages; I've used it time & again to comfort & console:

Our lives like dreams endure
and reach out over the universe.
Nothing real is to itself alone.
There are sidestreams to rivers; there are overtones to thought.
Great love reaches out
and is involved in the world's purposes.

Our loves are only symbols of an unknown immortality.
Where communion is deep, there exists no separation at all,
for what needs telling those we love is understood already,
and what is supposed to be gone and past
is often more real than ever.
Through the sculpture of experience,
that part of ourselves which survives,
like cloud, resolves continuously.
This is the spirit of my hope and my religion.