This quote is from the Desert Solitaire chapter "Terra Incognita: Into the Maze"
"Benedicto: May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets' towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you --- beyond that next turning of the canyon walls."Edward Abbey
4 comments:
hey, great map, and a nice inspiration for Abbey's Way ... or whatever it'll be. And a dramatic map, too! Works on both counts.
I love Edward Abbey! I'd forgotten just how much until I read your quote. I finished all of his books about 9 years ago and have since moved on but you've reminded me that they are worth revisiting. Hey did you climb Everest?
On top of the world, indeed -- I was looking for something new, but no additions ... we're counting on you, though, for the latest stuff!
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