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“When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.”
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“Its beauty stirs the imagination, and I wonder if the last refuge of all that is truly wild lies not on earth but in light.”
― Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
― Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
“I would like to do whatever it is that presses the essence from the hour.”
― The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky
― The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky
“My geography savors a delicious paradox: Home - a grounding - found in unearthly beauty. The predominant colors are blue, emerald, and terra-cotta. Every day, every season, I taste these colors and the intricate flavors of their unaccountable tones and hues. I have yet to earn this land. Perhaps I never will. Home is a religion. Sensibly you understand the need for it, yet not even sensible people can explain it. - from the Chapter "Finding Home”
― The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest
― The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest
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