The End of All Our Exploring
This is a picture of the Pacific Ocean near the mouth of the Columbia River. The Corps of Discovery, led by Lewis and Clark, came upon this landscape two hundred years ago. Last week, while walking through the brush, along the bluff’s edge, I thought of these lines from T.S. Eliot:
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
