"The Desert Fathers believed that the wilderness had been created as supremely valuable in the eyes of God precisely because it had no value to man . . . The desert was created simply to be itself, not to be transformed by humanity into something else. So too the mountain and the sea. The desert is therefore the logical dwelling place for the person who seeks to be nothing but himself."
Thomas Merton
Photos: (Top) Sandstone formations; (Middle) Red-osier Dogwood leaf in The Joint; (Bottom) The Henry Mountains loom in the distance near The Maze. All three photos were taken on November 28-29 in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park, UT
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