Results for keyword: solitude
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Just a few moments in Yellowstone
In a quiet, solitary hour at Yellowstone, nothing seems to happen -- and everything does.
by Alan Kesselheim, Sep 01, 2011 -
A dark and disjointed journey
The short stories in Sam Shepard's new collection, Day out of Days, have an unhinged, distinctly Western flavor.
by Traci J. Macnamara, Feb 14, 2010 -
The squeal of silence
Time spent alone in a cabin in the wild reminds a writer that silence is more than the absence of noise.
by Charles Goodrich, Feb 11, 2010 -
The knowledge of mules
After more than a decade of a solitary existence packing mules in the Northern Rockies, the writer is seriously injured and must reconsider his way of life.
by Jason Fisher, Mar 05, 2007 -
Winter Prayer
Snowshoeing alone at night in the forest, a woman thinks – and prays – about the friends she loves, and the families they worry about.
by Kathleen Dean Moore, Feb 05, 2007 -
Leave only footprints, and turn the darn phone off
Cell phones have their uses, but they do not belong in the wilderness
by Becky Lomax, Oct 02, 2006 -
Leave the wheels out of wilderness
As enjoyable as mountain biking is, bikes simply don’t belong in the wilderness, partly because the faster you travel through a place, the smaller – and tamer – that place begins to seem.
by Greg Hanscom, Sep 18, 2006 -
On a lonely road, time rolls to a stop
The writer travels from New York to Nevada every year, just to stop on one of the state’s empty highways and listen to the endless desert silence
by Jim Harmon, Aug 02, 2004
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