Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
I owned the world that hour, as I rode over it. Free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
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