Loneliness is an aspect of the land. All things in the plain are isolate; there is no confusion of objects in the eye, but one hill or one tree or one man. To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion. Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.
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Momaday, Navarre Scott. The Way to Rainy Mountain. University of New Mexico Press, 1969, introduction. Originally appeared in The Reporter, 26 Jan. 1967.
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