![]() ![]() In 1260 Marco Polo headed off to find China, and in 1967, when I was seven, I tried to dig a hole straight through from our backyard with my friend Danny Wilson. It comes naturally, like our innate love of maps. My gender seems to need little encouragement. Their conclusion? “Never stop exploring.” I am not alive on a sidewalk.” Amen to that. “I am not alive in an office,” as one Northface ad had it. The core of a man’s heart is undomesticated and that is good. As John Muir said, when a man comes to the mountains, he comes home. We long to return it’s when most men come alive. And ever since then boys have never been at home indoors, and men have had an insatiable longing to explore. In the record of our beginnings, the second chapter of Genesis makes it clear: man was born from the outback, from the untamed part of creation. But Adam, if you’ll notice, was created from the earth itself, from the clay.
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