In the desert, you must come with no intentions of discovery. You must overhear things instead.

"The land does not give easily.  The desert is like a boulder; you expect to wait . . . But you expect sometime it will loosen into pieces to be examined . . . You can't get at it this way.  You must come with no intentions of discovery.  You must overhear things, as though you'd come into a small and desolate town and paused by an open window . . . You have to proceed almost by accident."

Barry Lopez

Photo: Waterfall on Professor Creek in Mary Jane Canyon, Castle Valley, UT, April 21, 2012