from the foreword to the first edition . . .
It is hard to tell which shaped the other more -- Ansel Adams or the Sierra Club. The club provided, by chance, a small building of which a teen-age Ansel could briefly be summer custodian; it provided him for many later summers a group of people who liked mountains as well as he did and who, as he helped lead them along wilderness trails in the Sierra Nevada, learned to see more than they had expected to; and it provided him with a respect that has never ceased growing . . .
David Brower
Executive Director, Sierra ClubNew York City
October 31, 1963