The brave, sweet, heartbreaking beauty of all wild and lonely things.

"Love of Heaven slanders earth; be true to the earth . . . We in America are being systematically robbed.  Robbed of the most elementary decencies of life - clean air, sunlight, pure unmedicated water . . . , silence, solitude and space, even time, even death.  Instead? . . .

Tee Vee.  Hi-Fi.  Super-Duper.  Glittering shit.  And, finally, morphine.  Not socialism, not capitalism is the enemy but - industry and technology carried to excess, to and beyond the point of madness . . .

Back in Abbey's country again.  I walk in beauty, I go in beauty . . . Red naked rock again, the enormous and dazzling sky . . . magnificence everywhere I look . . . The brave, sweet, heartbreaking beauty of all wild and lonely things."

Edward Abbey

Photo: Joanne hiking along Professor Creek in MaryJane Canyon, Castle Valley, near Moab, UT, April 21, 2012.  Yes, those colors really ARE real!