Cognition.

“The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.” ― Alain de Botton

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Lockes, Nevada

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“We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone’s eye, we look into a mind.” ― Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American

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Job’s Peak roadless area straddles the California-Nevada state line

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“The mind is a powerful thing. It can take you through walls.” ― Denis Avey, The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II

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Job’s Peak Ranch land

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“Man’s mind, once stretched by an idea, never regains its original shape.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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U.S. 50 through Nevada, the self-proclaimed “Loneliest Road In America”

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Once most of humanity is estranged from nature, rootless, unfamiliar with the rhythms of the seasons and the cycle of passing and renewal, bound by material considerations alone, uncomfortable with solitude and silence and darkness, jostled by the crowd and the hum and the neon, the danger is that some essential ethical ballast and reference is lost. – Roger Cohen

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/11/opinion/roger-cohen-one-life-in-one-place.html?_r=0

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