"Above all, geology makes explicit challenges to our understanding of time. It giddies the sense of here-and-now. The imaginative exper...

"We tend to think of landscapes as affecting us most strongly when we are in them or on them, when they offer us the primary sensations...

"On almost every front, we have begun a turning away from a felt relationship with the natural world. The blinding of the stars is ...

"We lack - we need - a term for those places where one experiences a 'transition' from a known landscape... into 'anoth...

"The true blessing of the mountains is not that they provide a challenge or a contest, something to be overcome and dominated (alth...

"Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them, and a...