Watching the animals come and go, and feeling the land swell up to mee…

Barry Lopez
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Watching the animals come and go, and feeling the land swell up to meet them and then feeling it grow still at their departure, I came to think of the migrations as breath, as the land breathing. In spring a great inhalation of light and animals. The long-bated breath of summer. And an exhalation that propelled them all south in the fall. ✨ Barry Lopez (2013). Arctic Dreams, p.218, Open Road Media
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