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The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.

— Robert Smithson

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Writing should generate ideas into matter, and not the other way around.

Spiral Jetty from atop Rozel Point, in mid-April 2005. It was created in 1970 and still exists although it has often been submerged by the fluctuating lake level. It consists of some 6500 tons of basalt, earth and salt.

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