“For years I’ve told stories in teaching and, from time to time, at storytelling festivals and conferences. But this experience of being heard by a handful of pine trees in an Ozark wilderness finally pushed me over the edge, requiring that I acknowledge—humbly, and with amazement—that I, too, am a storyteller. A storyteller is one who watches the stuff-of-his-own-being transformed into wonder through a shared process of listening and dying.”
–Belden Lane, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes, p. 158
