There are people who have no engaged conversation with the land whatsoever, no sense of its beauty or extremes or limits and… — Ellen Meloy Action Copy Share Image
“Everyone will tell you that genealogy serves two purposes: self-knowledge and social status, some sort of pedigree divined from names, locations, and… — Ellen Meloy Social status Copy Share Image
“Breathing, it seemed to me, was a proper attribute for the mountains... mountains that quietly functioned as a single thing with a… — Ellen Meloy Copy Share Image
“ Homo sapiens have left themselves few places and scant ways to witness other species in their own worlds, an estrangement that… — Ellen Meloy Wild animals Copy Share Image
“Each of us possesses five fundamental, enthralling maps to the natural world: sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell. As we unravel the threads… — Ellen Meloy Natural world Copy Share Image
The complex human eye harvests light. It perceives seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash: one-tenth of a second from… — Ellen Meloy Anticipate Copy Share Image
“I was a lowly puddle of plasma, trading “I am alive” for a vague “I tend to exist” and weeping for joy… — Ellen Meloy Copy Share Image
...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light. — Ellen Meloy Beneath the surface Copy Share Image
“A cavalry of sweaty but righteous blond gods chased pesky, unkempt people across an annoyingly leaky Mexican border. A grimy cowboy with… — Ellen Meloy Cowboy Copy Share Image
“How do I stop this misery?” I groaned, scanning the shelves for a cure. “Don’t go out there,” he said flatly. I… — Ellen Meloy Copy Share Image
“ In genealogy you might say that interest lies in the eye of the gene holder. The actual descendants are far more… — Ellen Meloy Love Copy Share Image
“This deranged jungle of ironies coinhabits my skull like feathers and fireworks. My heart fills with stones. I am the mad aunt… — Ellen Meloy Copy Share Image
“Its beauty stirs the imagination, and I wonder if the last refuge of all that is truly wild lies not on earth… — Ellen Meloy Beauty Copy Share Image
“In the hallowed tradition of squishy doughball liberals, I believe that science, reason, kindness, and understanding—maybe a little food—can set the world… — Ellen Meloy Kindness Copy Share Image
“My geography savors a delicious paradox: Home - a grounding - found in unearthly beauty. The predominant colors are blue, emerald, and… — Ellen Meloy Beauty Copy Share Image
“It has come quickly, this crushing, industrial love of paradise. The pervert-free, less-trammeled, hundred-mile-view days were little more than two decades past,… — Ellen Meloy Long ago Copy Share Image
Before Alaska came along and ruined everything, one of every twenty-five square miles in America was Montanan. This much space has nurtured… — Ellen Meloy Alaska Copy Share Image
I hope to make pictures like I walk in the desert—under a spell, an instinct of motion, a kind of knowing that… — Ellen Meloy Blood Copy Share Image
“Of all the things I wondered about on this land, I wondered the hardest about the seduction of certain geographies that feel… — Ellen Meloy Fall in love Copy Share Image
“For bighorns, topography is memory, enhanced by acute vision. They can anticipate the land's every contour--when to leap, where to climb, when… — Ellen Meloy Animals Copy Share Image
