**D**

**DARLINGTONIA**

This is one of the few places in California where the charming linnaea
is found, though it is common to the northward through Oregon and
Washington. Here, too, you may find the curious but unlovable
darlingtonia, a carnivorous plant that devours bumblebees, grasshoppers,
ants, moths, and other insects, with insatiable appetite. In approaching
it, its suspicious looking yellow spotted hood and watchful attitude
will be likely to make you go cautiously through the bog where it
stands, as if you were approaching a dangerous snake.

STEEP TRAILS, pg.61

**DAWN**

\"The rose light of the dawn, creeping higher among the stars changes to
daffodil yellow; then come the yellow enthusiastic sunbeams pouring
across the feathery ridges, touching pine after pine, spruce and fir,
libocedrus and lordly sequoia, searching every recess, until all are
awakened and warmed.\"

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.82

**DEATH**

\"Like trees in autumn shedding their leaves, going to dust like
beautiful days to night, proclaiming as with the tongues of angels the
natural beauty of death.\"

STEEP TRAILS, pg.271

\"Death is a kind nurse saying, \"Come, children, to bed and get up in
the morning\" a gracious mother calling her children home.\"

JOHN OF THE MOUNTAINS, pg.440

"The rugged old Norsemen spoke of death as Heimgang\-\--home-going. So
snow-flowers go home when they melt and flow to the sea, and the rock
ferns, after unrolling their fronds to the light and beautifying the
rocks, roll them up close again in the autumn and blend with the soil."

JOHN OF THE MOUNTAINS, pg.439

"On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than of death.
Instead of the friendly sympathy, the union of life and death so
apparent in Nature, we are taught that death is an accident, a
deplorable punishment for the oldest sin, the arch-enemy of life, etc."

THOUSAND MILE WALK TO THE GULF, pg.70

**DEER**

\"Deer give beautiful animation to the forests, harmonizing finely in
their color and movements with the gray and brown shafts of the trees as
they stand in groups at rest\...\"

STEEP TRAILS, pg.228

**DEER cont.**

\"Everywhere some species of deer seems to be at home, on rough or
smooth ground, lowlands or highlands, in swamps and barrens and the
densest woods, in varying climates, hot or cold, over all

the continent; maintaining glorious health, never making an awkward
step. Standing, lying down, walking, feeding, running even for life, it
is always invincibly graceful, and adds beauty and animation to every
landscape, a charming animal, and a great credit to nature.\"

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.190

\"I never see one of the common blacktail deer, the only species in the
Park, without fresh admiration; and since I never carry a gun I see them
well.\"

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.190

**DESERTS**

\"Deserts are charming to those who know how to see them.\"

STEEP TRAILS, pg.66

\"\...Nevada is beautiful in her wilderness, and if tillers of the soil
can be brought to see that possibly Nature may have other uses for RICH
soil then will these foodless \`deserts\' have taught a fine lesson.\"

STEEP TRAILS, pg.116

**DEVELOPMENT**

\"The wedges of development are being driven hard, and none of the
obstacles or defenses of nature can long withstand the onset of this
immeasurable industry.\"

STEEP TRAILS, pg.147

**DICKSONIA**

polypod

magnolias

laurels

azaleas

asters

Hypnum mosses

Madotheaca (scale mosses)

THOUSAND MILE WALK, pg.31

**DISASTERS, NATURAL**

\"The shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, storms,
the pounding of waves, the uprush of sap in plants, each and all tell
the orderly love beats of Nature\'s heart.\"

THE YOSEMITE, pg.64

**DISCIPLINE AND ORDER**

\"Not withstanding the great number of harshly enforced rules, not very
good order was kept in school in my time.\"

MY BOYHOOD AND YOUTH, pg.36

**DUSK**

\"The evening flames with purple and gold\...the mighty host of trees
baptized in the purple flood stand hushed and thoughtful, awaiting the
sun\'s blessing and farewell.\"

OUR NATIONAL PARKS, pg.82