One of the reasons we love the desert is because there's enough space to let the mind go free. It's a positive nothingness.

"Each time [I] look out upon this world it seems to me more alien and dreamlike than before. And all of it, utterly empty."

"NADA.  There's plenty of that out here.  But it's a positive nothingness . . . One of the big reasons I love the desert, any desert, is because there's enough space to let my mind go free."

Edward Abbey

Photo: Sunset, Badlands National Park, SD, May 19, 2012