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The earth does not argue,
Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out. --Walt Whitman, "Carol of Words"
On September 19, 2003, I joined Jeff Lowder and Jim Still--both board members of Internet Infidels--on a trek into the largest hole in the ground on the planet, the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona.
With thirty- to forty-pound packs on our backs, we hiked more than seven miles down to the floor of the canyon that day, a Friday, camped two nights under the stars, and returned via a nine-mile trail back to the South Rim, almost five thousand feet above the Colorado River. Of the five million visitors to the park every year, hundreds of people follow an itinerary similar to ours.
While our group may have looked like many others on the surface, it struck me that...
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