Alone with

"One can only be lonely in relation to people. And being alone in the desert is to be alone with this expanse of wildness and wilderness, or rock and sky, stone and thorn. In loneliness, I feel closed in on myself, cut off. But in the desert alone, it is as if I were expanding to join this vastness. Instead of being cut off, I was becoming a part of it."

-Lesley Hazleton, Where Mountains Roar