"There is beauty to the Open Cut, but of a ravaged, mournful kind. The place rebuffs perceptual definition and oscillates in the eye. At one moment it is a marvel and astonishment, a landscape that suggests how much human beings are forces of nature, equivalent to millions of years of wind or water. The next moment it's a place cored and destroyed, a scar that will never heal, and human beings are not forces of nature but forces against it.
The next moment still one can think that the earth has no prejudice toward or against any state or condition, but creates its own deserts, makes its own wastelands, and some wastelands are beautiful and some are not."
- Kent Myers, Harper's Magazine, May 2015
The next moment still one can think that the earth has no prejudice toward or against any state or condition, but creates its own deserts, makes its own wastelands, and some wastelands are beautiful and some are not."
- Kent Myers, Harper's Magazine, May 2015
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