"Silence is the traveler’s guide to that world. Every visit to it lifts the feet a little more off the ground." 1

The ever present solitude, the penetrating silence, the natural order, are the things that every wilderness wanderer falls in love with and becomes bonded to the world. 2

1. John Cage (1961): Silence: lectures and writings, Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press
2. Will Simpson (2021). SOLITUDE. Moscow, Idaho. https://www.kestrelcreek.com/wooden-zen/solitude