But no journalist wrote about the banality of city life or how easy it is to become another automaton paying bills and working nine to five and being so removed from the primary necessities of life and so far from real fear and natural beauty and human instinct that when death finally approaches in some antiseptic white room, just as you have been waiting for it, you sense that you have already been dead for years.
Jonathan Waterman, In The Shadow of Denali page 246
I never liked this sad quote, as it demonstrates a person who has lost the ability to revel in the less dramatic of nature's experiences. I still become delighted by the sight of a double rainbow from my backyard -- in the city -- or the sounds of two hawks circling high, high overhead. I strain to see them, but I can hear them. Cloud formations are still visible and recorded on the cheapest of used cameras. Sigh. I guess that I am easy to please. One would guess that perhaps I have not experienced the real deal, however, I found the Dolomites to bee quite impressive, too.
