Diary/Photo Journal Index

It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the most adaptive to change.

Charles Darwin
 

Then I have climbed up the steps of the land
through the dreadful thicket of the lost forests
to you, Machu Picchu.
High city of ascending stones,
final resting place from which the earthly
did not hide in their weary garments.
With you, as two parallel lines,
the cradle of lightning and of man
rocks to and fro in a wind of thorns.

Pablo Neruda
2004, celebrating 100 year anniversary of his birth

Without doubt there are wild countries more favoured by Nature in many ways. 
But nowhere else are you so completely alone. 
Nowhere else is there an area of 10,000 square miles which you may gallop over, and where...
you are safe from the persecutions of fevers, friends...telegrams, letters
and every other nuisance you are elsewhere liable to be exposed to.

Lady Florence Dixie, 1878 (on Patagonia)

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