Storm moves across the Painted Desert as seen from Whipple Point, Photo by T. Scott Williams, Copyright PFMA

  "As I sat there on the rock I realized that, in spite of the closeness of civilization and the changes that hemmed it in, this remnant of the old wilderness would speak to me of silence and solitude, of belonging and wonder and beauty. Though the point was only a small part of the vastness..., from it I could survey the whole."

Sigurd Olson
Listening Point, 1958

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