May 8-Making Nature Sacred 1-Adrienne Jones

“The ‘divinely beautiful’ luminosity of these heights sets the tone of his account in The Mountains of California. Pressing toward the summit of Mount Ritter, he perceived the rosy evening alpenglow to be ‘one of the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God.” Throughout “Making Nature Sacred,” Gatta uses examples from authors to express his feeling toward his belief in combining religious practices with nature.