in the light that never was

"I had seen it through the eyes of Winnenap, in a rosy mist of reminiscence, and must always see it with a sense of intimacy in the light that never was."

-Mary Austin

Land of Little Rain

Joshua Tree National Park

November 2013

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it does not sit flatly on the rims of the earth

"Out West, the west of the mesas and the unpatented hills, there is more sky than any place in the world.  It does not sit flatly on the rims of the earth, but begins somewhere out in the space in which the earth is poised, hollows more, and is full of clean, shiny winds."

- Mary Austin

Land of Little Rain

Joshua Tree National Park

November 2013

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giving compensation

For all the toll the desert takes of a man,

It gives compensations:

Deep breath, deep sleep,

and the communion of the stars.

-Mary Austin, Land of Little Rain

- Mary Austin

Land of Little Rain

Joshua Tree National Park

November 2013

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