Nature can make us feel pretty small.
In the years I lived in Colorado, east of Denver, I had the habit of taking visitors up Smoky Hill Road to the high prairie southeast of the metropolitan area. There was one high place where one could pull off the road (it wasn’t all built up with houses and shopping centers then) and see the tall buildings of downtown Denver, that great city of the plains – looking very, very small, down there in the South Platte valley, with the mighty Front Range completely overshadowing the city.
It’s an interesting perspective. Now here, in Alaska, there is a lot that can make a person feel pretty small. On a clear day, you can see the Alaska Range from 150 miles away; Alaska is a vast, vast place, mostly empty of people, and there are places where, if you leave the highway and start walking in a given direction, you would never…
