The Unseen Peninsula

I just stumbled across a copy of Robert Buelteman's The Unseen Peninsula. I thoroughly enjoyed both the photographs and the quotations. They reminded me how fortunate I am to live on the San Francisco Peninsula and of its rich natural and cultural history.

Crystal Fen

Here are some of my favorite quotes.

...on the west the steep mountain sweeps around in a grand curve, forming a magnificent amphitheatre beside which the [Roman] coliseum is but the toy playhouse of a child.

- Colonel Albert S. Evans, Journalist, 1873

But let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights.

All is divine harmony.

- John Muir, Naturalist, 1916

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

- Albert Einstein, Physicist

Reeds and Water

Check out lightlanguagepublications.com for more of Buelteman's work.