The Important Thing17
I’m dealing with the most important things there are: life and nature. If this doesn’t work, if this doesn’t sustain me, I can’t go back to nature. I’m right there. There’s nowhere to go, and that frightens me.
—Andy Goldsworthy
I woke up early today and sat on my porch as darkness faded into an overcast and chilly morning. A good rain came yesterday and the air is rich with the perfume of pine sap and desert flora. I spent the last couple of weeks on the sagebrush plains and among sparse aspen groves on a remote high plateau, watching monsoonal thunderstorms come and go, having a front-row seat in a theater of majestic proportions to watch lightning, thunder, and rain dancing upon the volcanic landscape, now verdant and ...
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