Quotes From "Eating Stone: Imagination And The Loss Of The Wild" By Ellen Meloy

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For bighorns, topography is memory, enhanced by acute vision. They can anticipate the land's every contour--when to leap, where to climb, when to turn, which footholds will support their muscular bodies. To survive, this is what the band would have to do: make this perfect match of flesh to earth. Ellen Meloy
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Its beauty stirs the imagination, and I wonder if the last refuge of all that is truly wild lies not on earth but in light. Ellen Meloy