Not From Here

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