All of those things - rock and men and river - resisted change, resisted the coming as they did the going. Hood warmed and rose slowly, breaking open the plain, and cooled slowly over the plain it buried. The nature of things is resistance to change, while the nature of process is resistance to stasis, yet things and process are one, and the line from inorganic to organic and back is uninterrupted and unbroken.

Living out of the back of his van he visited small towns such as Nameless Tennessee; Hachita New Mexico; and Bagley Minnesota to find places in America untouched by fast food chains and interstate highways. The Atlantic November 1987. PrairyErth is a deep map account of the history and people of Chase County Kansas.

travel writing. He is the author of a bestselling trilogy of topographical U. William Least Heat-Moon the byname of William Lewis Trogdon (born August 27 1939) is an American travel writer of English Irish and Osage ancestry.