Desert Light
My interest in the desert southwest was born from reading Ed Abbey’s Desert Solitaire. At the very front of the book, there is a passage that resonates in a powerful way for me:
“… it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparitive sparsity of the flora and fauna: life not crowded upon life as in other places but scattered abroad in spareness and simplicity, with a generous gift of space for each herb and bush and tree, each stem of grass, so that the living organism stands out bold and brave and vivid against the lifeless sand and barren rock. The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.”
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