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“I go everywhere. I admire all kinds of country...But when I strike the open plains, something happens. I’m home. I breathe differently. That love of great spaces, of rolling open country like the sea—it’s the grand passion of my life. I tried for years to get over it. I’ve stopped trying. It’s incurable.”

“We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.”

“We are mistaken when we think of nomads as rootless—for isn’t it by walking around a place, rolling in its dust, branching out and returning, that you grow to know it, to love it? Hence tariqa, a way or path, is the Sufi tariqa, ‘The Way’ to communicate with God, the beloved.”

“There was a smell of wood smoke and he could hear the voices of children, happy-angry, in the distance. It was a world, and it was precious to him.”