From Annie Dillard's "Pilgrim At Tinker Creek":
At the time of Lewis and Clark, setting the prairie on fire was a well-known signal that meant “Come down to the water.” It was an extravagant gesture but we can’t do less. If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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