ocr: ELECA-AA I they are noteworthy because of their shallowness, yet they exist because they once: were deep holes of the ancient lake. It's that kind of inversion. that irony of natural process, that marks this place: What was deepest is shallowest, what was fiery flowing magma is rigid mountain, what was buried stands high and exposed, and a hundred feet above a mud- entombed juniper forest only sagebrush can grow. Time travelisn requisite to traverse this desert in any deep sense, and it is the sweep of years that creates the topsy-turviness, the undulations of a nature that appears to writhe t ...
