Stone Time: Southern Utah – A Portrait and a Meditation

Description

Renowned wilderness writer T. H. Watkins offers a portrait of remote areas of the fragile and beautiful canyon lands of Utah, and with it an impassioned plea: he urges that steps be taken for the permanent preservation of these precious wild lands, which are already threatened with ecological destruction and may soon be lost to us forever.

Watkins’ inspired book offers some of the finest photographs of the canyon lands ever produced and a poetic text that speaks of the many meditative hours the writer spent in this beloved region. He gives us a panorama of majestic mountains, buttes, and mesas; forest views of pinon and juniper and tall mountain sage; and intimate glimpses of rivers weaving magically through redrock slits in the earth. Through Watkins’s exquisite visual and literary images shines his deep commitment to saving treasured wild lands that were old when humankind was “yet ungraced by the breath of Creation.”