“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
“Of all the things I wondered about on this land, I wondered the hardest about the seduction of certain geographies that feel like home — not by story or blood but merely by their forms and colors. How our perceptions are our only internal map of the world, how there are places that claim you and places that warn you away. How you can fall in love with the light.”
― The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky
― The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky
“In New Mexico, he always awoke a young man, not until he arose and began to shave did he realize that he was growing older. His first consciousness was a sense of the light dry wind blowing in through the windows, with the fragrance of hot sun and sage-brush and sweet clover; a wind that made one's body feel light and one's heart cry 'To-day, to-day,' like a child's.”
― Death Comes for the Archbishop
― Death Comes for the Archbishop
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