Expansive and wild, untamable, invincible,
defender of the unrefined, buffalo and elk, mother of nature, father of
survival, soul of tranquility, Yellowstone National Park is the sanctuary of
character, the sanctuary of title, of knowledge, of mystery. It gives birth to Old
Faithful Geyser and Yellowstone Lake, extending over
2,219,789 wildlife-inhabited
acres, rocky as the mountains. Over two million and two hundred thousand acres
of clawing, stampeding, grazing animals, of waterfalls and lakes and hot
springs, of mountains and forest, of grass, meadow, pasture and vastness.
Things get eaten here, things boil over, explode, graze, forage. The park is
home to sixty-seven species of mammals, three hundred and twenty-two species of
birds, sixteen species of fish, six species of reptiles, and four species of
amphibians – all diversely equipped with beaks, claws, wings, fangs, antlers,
hooves and fur – not to mention the pronghorns, moose, and black bears,
white-tailed deer, mountain goat, and bighorn sheep, grey wolves and mountain
lions that exist only to compound the beauty and perfection of life. There are
lynx here, black bears, bobcats, and cattle, there are wolverines, bald eagles,
and cutthroat trout. They feed on each other, in the prairie and plains they
lay eggs, they scratch and sniff and peruse the enormous land, growling and howling
through the long nights until the earth echoes a sweet lullaby.
Expansive and wild, untamable, invincible,
defender of the unrefined, buffalo and elk, mother of nature, father of
survival, soul of tranquility, Yellowstone National Park is the sanctuary of
character, the sanctuary of title, of knowledge, of mystery. It gives birth to Old
Faithful Geyser and Yellowstone Lake, extending over
2,219,789 wildlife-inhabited
acres, rocky as the mountains. Over two million and two hundred thousand acres
of clawing, stampeding, grazing animals, of waterfalls and lakes and hot
springs, of mountains and forest, of grass, meadow, pasture and vastness.
Things get eaten here, things boil over, explode, graze, forage. The park is
home to sixty-seven species of mammals, three hundred and twenty-two species of
birds, sixteen species of fish, six species of reptiles, and four species of
amphibians – all diversely equipped with beaks, claws, wings, fangs, antlers,
hooves and fur – not to mention the pronghorns, moose, and black bears,
white-tailed deer, mountain goat, and bighorn sheep, grey wolves and mountain
lions that exist only to compound the beauty and perfection of life. There are
lynx here, black bears, bobcats, and cattle, there are wolverines, bald eagles,
and cutthroat trout. They feed on each other, in the prairie and plains they
lay eggs, they scratch and sniff and peruse the enormous land, growling and howling
through the long nights until the earth echoes a sweet lullaby.
I like how through your description of Yellowstone National Park you resemble the second environmental passage we read in class this week.
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