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He stood on the escarpment. His view was commanded by the alluring starkness of desert peaks. The smoky green agaves and jack pine in the foreground were made all the more immediate by the brownness of the dunelike ridges of the Chihuahuan Desert beyond. "It is easy to get lost in the workings of man's society, a society that does not know its way. That is why I came here and why I come to places like this place. The bright beauty reminds me that the world still can be fine and that life can remain keen and exciting." "Call it escape. I call it a return to reality and a renewal of sanity." Copyright 1988 by Derek Wallentinsen
"A poetic appreciation of life, combined with a knowledge of nature, creates humility, which in turn becomes the greatness of man." Olaus Murie
"Whatever trouble life holds for you, that part of your lives which you spend finding out about things, things that you can tell others about, and that you can learn from them, that part will be essentially a gay, a sunny, a happy life." J. R. Oppenheimer
"There we were all in one place,
Don McLean, American Pie
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