Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

by Edward Abbey

Those were all good times, especially the first two seasons when the tourist business was poor and the time passed extremely slowly, as time should pass, with the days lingering and long, spacious and free as the summers of

childhood. There was time enough for once to do nothing, or

They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins.…