Ellen Meloy Quotes:
Ocupation: Nature writer
Life: June 21, 1946 - November 4, 2004
Birthday: June 21
Death: November 4
There are people who have no engaged conversation with the land whatsoever, no sense of its beauty or extremes or limits and therefore no reason to question their actions in a place that is merely backdrop.
source: Ellen Meloy (2008). “The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky”, p.289, Vintage
topic: Land, People, Limits, Backdrop
