Maple Sapling and Rock, Passaconaway, New Hampshire

Eliot Porter

negative 1953; print 1981

Dye imbibition print

J. Paul Getty Museum

A maple sapling with yellow leaves growing in front of a large grey rock. The ground is covered in yellow, green, and red leaves. Moss is growing on the side of the rock. Thoreau, Henry David and Eliot Porter. In Wildness is the Preservation of the World: From Henry David Thoreau, introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch (San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1962), unpaginated.