August 26, 2010
"Edward Abbey said, in the introduction to his classic misanthropic hymn Desert Solitaire, ‘This is not a travel guide but an elegy. You’re holding a tombstone in your hands. A bloody rock.’ A rock he suggests throwing at ‘something big and glassy: What do you have to lose?’ Abbey would have been amused, though not surprised, to know that today’s travelers seeking nature-oriented moments in the West are moving away from the typical and increasingly tainted wilderness experiences such as river rafting—viruses from sewage treatment plants along the Colorado have spoiled many a tourist’s holiday—toward remote natural ‘shows’ like the man-made lightning field in New Mexico. There’s a lot that’s big and glassy out there, all coming closer, and you have nothing to lose by objecting to it because the good stuff has pretty much disappeared. "

— Joy Williams, July 2003.

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  6. kenlayne said: And what good stuff is that? What is she *talking* about? Pre-sewage treatment, raw effluent dumped into the Colorado for its entire length.
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