It’s
8:00 PM. I drive to Zabriskie Point, shrug on my daypack,
filled with water and snacks for my all-night journey,
and hike up the steep 200-yard trail. Anxious to see
the moon rise, I move quickly past the first rest bench.
The second bench, however, clearly has my name on it.
I sit down and catch my breath. A warm breeze catches
my waist-length hair and tosses it about. I turn my
flashlight off and gaze into the night’s unlit
emptiness. This is what my solitary retreat is all about.
Getting in touch with myself. Getting in touch with
the universe. Finding what’s truly important.
I choose the night to begin my quest for inner truth.
I know in this darkness, I must search hard to find
the light...
Few
places on earth of comparable size have as wide a variety
of habitats as Death Valley. Elevations here range from
282 feet below sea level near Badwater—the lowest
spot in the Western Hemisphere—to the snow-capped
summit of Telescope Peak (11,049 feet). Juniper, pinyon,
limber pine, and the long-lived bristlecone pine (up
to 13,000 years old) decorate the slopes of the higher
mountain ranges. Around the fringes of Badwater, whose
brackish water is home to soldier fly larvae and bronze
water beetles in search of algae, only pickleweed and
salt grass grow. Between these extremes are sand dunes,
salt marshes, freshwater springs, and forests of Joshua
trees.
—From
“A Quest For Life” by Lynn Wilson
A
Quest For Life
Lynn Wilson
32 pages with 30 color images. 9”x9”
Translations are available in German and Japanese.
ISBN 0-939365-65-0 (English Edition)
$5.95 
ISBN 0-939365-89-8 (German Edition)
$7.95
ISBN 0-939365-90-1 (Japanese Edition)
$7.95
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 Death Valley: A Valley of Life by Jeff Nicholas and Jim & Lynn Wilson
- Death Valley: Splendid Desolation by Stewart Aitchison
- Death Valley Postcard Book
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