“Once caught by the golden lure you become a prospector for life, condemned, doomed, exalted… The search for what? They could not have said; neither can I… anything as pretext. And how could they hope to find this treasure which has no name and has never been seen? Hard to say—and yet, when they found it, they could not fail to recognize it.”
The San Andreas Fault
Carrizo Plain National Monument, California
