The Hoodoo Land of Spire and Pillar and Pinnacle

Now I am in the open again, out of the underworld. Off in the east an isolated storm is boiling across the desert, a mass of lavender clouds bombarding the earth with lightning and trailing curtains of rain. The distance is so great that I cannot hear the thunder. Between here and there and me and the mountains it's the canyon wilderness, the hoodoo land of spire and pillar and pinnacle where no man lives, and where the river flows, unseen, through the blue-black trenches in the rock.

--Edward Abbey
(from "Desert Solitaire")