The Solace of Fierce Landscapes

Belden Lane explores the impulse that has drawn seekers into the wilderness for centuries and offers eloquent testimony to the healing power of mountain silence and desert indifference. Interweaving a memoir of his mother’s long struggle with Alzheimer’s and cancer, meditations on his own wilderness experience, and illuminating commentary on the Christian via negativa - a mystical tradition that seeks God in the silence behind language - Lane rejects the easy affirmations of pop spirituality for the harsher more profound truths that wilderness can teach us.

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