"I'm sure that this story [we are telling] will exist a thousand years from now. We may not recognize that it exists, but it'll be out there in the air. It'll be out there in the timeless wastes . . . A story does not have to be told to exist. Even if all the storytellers in the world or all the people in the world were to cease to exist, that particular story would remain . . . I do believe that every word that we speak passes not into death but into some other dimension of existence. I think that every story that was ever told might be right out there in the landscape . . ."
N. Scott Momaday
Kiowa writer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Photo: Desert Paintbrush and Horsecollar Ruin (Ancestral Puebloan); Natural Bridges National Monument, UT; September 3, 2012. Whenever I hike within these canyons, I can somehow sense the presence - often in palpable way - of the people who lived here, and of their stories. Many other travelers in canyon country feel similarly.
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