Man is not himself only . . . He is 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, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys; his is the rhythm of its seasonal processions, the involution and variation of its vegetal patterns. If there is in the country of his abiding, no more than a single refluent color, such as the veiled green of sage-brush or the splendid wine of sunset, 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

Photos: Stephen at Bryce and Arches National Parks, UT