Our National Parks is John Muir's invitation to Americans to visit, love and protect the wild parks and forest reservations of the West. In a short preface he explains that the ten sketches, first written for The Atlantic Monthly, aim to show the beauty, grandeur and usefulness of the mountain forests so that people will come, take them into their hearts, and see to their preservation.
Medical tag
Rest Cure
The nineteenth-century rest cure for "nervous" illness: enforced bed rest, isolation, feeding and a ban on mental work, associated with S. Weir Mitchell.
Works
"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in The New England Magazine in January 1892 and issued as a small book in 1899. It takes the form of a secret journal kept by an unnamed young wife and mother whose husband, John, a physician, has diagnosed her with "temporary nervous depression" after the birth of their baby.
Passages
- Our National Parks, Chapter I
Over-civilized, nerve-shaken city people find in the mountains a remedy for the effects of over-industry and luxury.
- The Yellow Wallpaper, Opening entries
John's diagnosis of nervous depression and hysterical tendency; tonics, air and a ban on work.
- The Yellow Wallpaper, Middle entries
John threatens to send her to Weir Mitchell in the fall.
Quotes
Frequently cited
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.”