Ninety-eight color photographs reveal the timeless beauty of the Big Thicket, an ecological system unique in the United states. Woodlands and swamps, fragile ferns and rare orchids, feral hogs and whitetail deer are among the flora and fauna included in this stunning visual record.

Many outlanders think of Texas as a land of cactus flats or High Plains ranches, its landscape broken only by barbed wire fences of perhaps an oil derrick. Texans, of course, know better. Here, in 202 magnificently reproduced, full-color photographs from "Texas Highways" magazine, the astonishing diversity and beauty of Texas landscapes are splendidly and dramatically displayed.
The damp pine forests, shaded lakes, and tangled thickets of East Texas; the fertile fields of the rolling prairies; the vast wheat and cotton farms and rangelands of the Panhandle plains; the rugged peaks...

John L. Tveten combines text and superb photographs to convey the beauty of the shoreline. Here are the sea, sand, plants, birds, animals, light, and shadow that comprise this region.

Wherever you live or look in Texas, nature reveals rare and striking sights. East, West, North, South, Central, Coastal--every Texas region possesses its own peculiar treasures of nature. They come in different forms: trees, mountains, mists, valleys, streams, meadows, flowers, birds, beasts, rocks, grasses, bugs, sweeping vistas of horizons, and stunning closeups of wild orchids unfolding in remote savannas. The elements have lavished upon Texas extravagant endowments of beauty.
This book is for anyone who has or aims to have a special feeling for such things. It's a book for learners...