Stephen Trimble

“A Lakota woman . . . once wrote that what lies at the heart of the religion of hunting peoples is the notion that a spiritual landscape exists within the physical landscape. To put it another way, occasionally one sees something fleeting in the land, a moment when line, color, and movement intensify and something sacred is revealed, leading one to believe that there is another realm of reality corresponding to the physical one but different.
In the face of a rational, scientific approach to the land, which is more widely sanctioned, esoteric insights and speculations are frequently overshadow, and what is lost is profound. The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life [Barry Lopez].”
― Stephen Trimble, Words from the Land: Encounters With Natural History Writing

“What one thinks of any region, while traveling through, is the result of at least three things: what one knows, what one imagines, and how one is disposed [Barry Lopez].”
― Stephen Trimble, Words from the Land: Encounters With Natural History Writing