We Are the Land

 

"Man is not himself only . . . He is all that he sees, all that flows to him from a thousand sources . . . He is the land. If there is in the country of his abiding, no more than a single refluent color, he takes it in and gives it forth again . . . , as a manner, as music, as a prevailing tone of thought, as the pattern of his personal adornment."

Mary Austin, 1924

Photo: Stephen in Professor Creek Canyon, near Moab, UT; May 4, 2014