a field guide to getting lost

"The mind too can be imagined as a landscape, but only the minds of sages might resemble the short-grass prarie in which I played with getting lost and vanishing. The rest of us have huge caverns, glaciers, torrential rivers, heavy fogs, chasms that open up underfoot, even marauding wildlife bearing family names."

Rebecca Solnit : A Field Guide to Getting Lost, p52