
A Thunderous Galloping Gathering
Amy Irvine
2nd October, 2019
Amy Irvine challenges Edward Abbey's influence on our individualistic relationship with wilderness, in an extract from her latest book 'Desert Cabal'
The writers from whom Dark Mountain has taken inspiration are grounded in a sense of place and time. In the deep time of geology and myth, in the rooted relation to place of a tree or the navigational feel for place of a migrant bird.
Steering by the specific, the peculiar character of each season and each stretch of land, we may be less tempted to offer once-and-for-all answers, contenting ourselves with those which will serve for here and for now.