Cappadocia: the Land

Never before have I experienced a land quite like that of the Turkish region known as Cappadocia . My wish of always wanting to journey to another world was practically granted upon our arrival in Nevşehir, one of the many villages that speckle the countryside. 

 

“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” 

--Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

 “The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts."

--Gerald O'Hara, Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell

“Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.”  

--Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind

 "Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people."

--Khalil Gibran 

"The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature."

--Stephen Gardiner 

 

“I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, 

revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes.”  

--Anne Brontë

"Though my soul may set in darkness,
it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly,
to be fearful of the night.” 

--Sarah Williams