![]() Scrape off our century, and you will find its usurper, pressed into a nugget of inorganic matter, the single greatest threat to the continuity of life. You will see eternity, a desert that like no other place exudes the timelessness of nature as the final arbiter. Gaze out from the mesa, and you will meet my duplicitous lover. During my recent journeys this history felt foreign and unnervingly off-the-Map, even as I lived in its heart. On the Colorado Plateau, with its considerable share of wildlands, a natural world more or less intact, the most exotic terrain may be the plateau's own history. Pay attention to the weather, to what breaks your heart, to what lifts your heart. Get to know your ants, creatures, who lives there, who died there, who is blessed, cursed, what is absent or in danger or in need of your help. Know where you are.your biological address. In the desert there is everything and there is nothing. ![]()
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