Remembering His Focus on Nature’s Beauty

Thank you so much, Reed Johnson, for your beautiful remembrance of Galen Rowell (“The Sky Was His Limit,” Aug. 15). It was Rowell’s work in the Sierra Club desk calendars during the 1970s that in part inspired me to get an undergraduate education in environmental biology. Many years later, I named my now 7-year-old son after him.

For all of us who cherish the Earth’s wild places, his loss is tremendous. I cannot think of how many thousands of times over the past 20 years, trapped inside an office somewhere, I looked at his photos on my desk and mentally escaped to some another place. I hope there is a young photographer out there somewhere striving to carry on his work.

LOUISE WOO

South Pasadena