What are the forces
of renewal?
Only the source of life
can tell us --
- only the living wilderness,
where man treads light and silent as any other
- where duck and hawk belong to the same sky, and the shrill
music of
coyotes to the
rims of moonlight
- where metamorphosis more strange than dreams call from the
tadpole
legs and from
the dark worm in the chrysalis bright wings
- where across oceans and hemispheres bird, fish and beast follow
paths older than the
continents,
Are these mysteries
we may penetrate or miracles we may only revere?
The Wilderness holds answers to more questions than we yet know
how to ask.
NANCY
NEWHALL
