"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 care less about our economic status or our 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 which our plans might influence future generations, we ought to chose carefully. Looking out on a clean plank of planet earth, we can get shaken right down to he bone by the bronze-eyed possibility of lives that are not our own."
From Small Wonder, a collection of essays by Barbara Kingsolver
Hi Kelli. What a glorious trip you are experiencing. A trip many of us would like to be partaking of as well. Your readings and words, as well as, the wonderful pictures are breathtaking. We think of you often on this sabbatical. May God be your constant guest, and may each day's lodging be a place of peace and a haven of rest. Love and God Bless! Betty and Bud
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