The complex human eye harvests light. It perceives seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash: one-tenth of a second from retina to brain. …

- Ellen Meloy

A map, it is said, organizes wonder.

- Ellen Meloy

There are people who have no engaged conversation with the land whatsoever, no sense of its beauty or extremes or limits and therefore no reason to q…

- Ellen Meloy

I hope to make pictures like I walk in the desert—under a spell, an instinct of motion, a kind of knowing that is essentially indirect and sideways.O…

- Ellen Meloy

Before Alaska came along and ruined everything, one of every twenty-five square miles in America was Montanan. This much space has nurtured a healthy…

- Ellen Meloy

...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.

- Ellen Meloy