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Wild & Beautiful Places
September 20, 2006
Hanging Rock Trail ~ Canon 30d
"What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us. We seem to succumb so easily to the prevailing human tendency to pave such places over, build subdivisions upon them, and name them The Willows, or Peregrine's Roost, or Elk Meadows, after whatever it was that got killed there....
Oh, how can I say this: People need wild places. Whether or not we think we do, we do. We need to be able to taste grace and know once again that we desire it. We need to experience a landscape that is timeless, whose agenda moves at the pace of speciation and glaciers. To be surrounded by a singing, mating, howling commotion of other species, all of which love their lives as much as we do ours, and none of which could possibly care less about our economic status or our running day calendar. Wildness puts us in our place. It reminds us that our plans are small and somewhat absurd. It reminds us why, in those cases in which our plans might influence many future generations, we ought to choose carefully."
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I took wonderful trip to North Carolina last weekend!
Posted by vincent at September 20, 2006 09:35 PM
Comments
What a grand shot, Susan!
Hey, it's good to hear you got some away time...
Posted by: dan at September 21, 2006 02:31 AM
It reminds us that our plans are small and somewhat absurd.
Boy howdy, doesn't it though? Glad you had some great time away in the wild! ;c)
Posted by: samtzmom at September 21, 2006 09:07 AM
Hee ~ forgot to turn off comments this morning. It's really nice to hear from you guys! ;0)
Posted by: susan at September 21, 2006 09:11 AM
Glorious, Susan!! Those mountains are amazing, aren't they?!?
Posted by: jzrart at September 21, 2006 03:38 PM