Yellow-legs in Manitoba Slough
collage, 7 x 5.5 inches
The love of wilderness
is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression
of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only
paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the
eyes to see ... No, wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the
human spirit, as vital to our lives as water and good bread.
~ Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
~ Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
It is only when we are aware
of the earth and of the
earth as poetry that we truly live.
~ Henry Beston, 1935, Herbs and the Earth
