I've been feeling homesick for the west lately.
I made a little design to cheer me up. Maybe I'll put it on a t-shirt or something...
On a related note, I found this quotation from Wallace Stegner the other day. He is one of my favorite novelists of all time; I love the man. What he says here definitely strikes a chord in my heart:
"The Utah deserts and plateaus and canyons are not a country of big returns, but a country of spiritual healing, incomparable for contemplation, meditation, solitude, quiet, awe, peace of mind and body. We were born of wilderness, and we respond to it more than we sometimes realize. We depend upon it increasingly for relief from the termite life we have created. Factories, power plants, resorts, we can make anywhere. Wilderness, once we have given it up, is beyond our reconstruction."
- Wallace Stegner, Wilderness at the Edge , 1990
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Not From Here
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I love this quote. It reminds me of standing in silence on a 500 foot cliff in Cayonlands where you have a nearly 360 view of the kind of wild nature you could never in your wildest dreams imagine all on your own. Never do you feel so small. But never does it matter less.
Little sister! I am so happy that you are here!
So, so, so happy that you appreciate the quote. Wallace Stegner said and wrote some deeply touching and truthful things in his lifetime. He loved the West. If you've never read All The Little Live Things (I know I never shut up about it), you should. You'd love it. It's all about different forms of love, life, and our relationship with nature... it's not much different from our relationships with ourselves and with others. It's that smallness you refer to... the smallness that is so awesome that it just. doesn't. matter.
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