The Snow Dove Embraces Long's

The snow dove has appeared! (Return to June 9 and you'll see what I mean.)

I could write a little drivel, but Wallace Stegner said it better in his Wilderness Letter:

" ...We need wilderness preserved--as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds--because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed. The reminder and the reassurance that it is still there is good for our spiritual health even if we never once in ten years set foot in it. It is good for us when we are young, because of the incomparable sanity it can bring briefly, as vacation and rest, into our insane lives. It is important to us when we are old simply because it is there--important, that is, simply as an idea."