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Juz dawno spadl ostatni klos i wroni skrzekot nad scierniskiem obwieszczal nieuchronnosc zimy, kiedy dotarla do mnie wiesc: Zakwitla Atacama . . . |
Piotr Wnukowski
Thousands o miles south of Atacama there is Patagonia . . .
Since its discovery by Magellan in 1520, Patagonia was known as a country of black fogs and whirlwinds at the end of the inhabited world. The word "Patagonia", like Mandalay or Timbuctoo, lodged itself in the Western imagination as a metaphor for the Ultimate, the point beyond which one could not go.
Bruce Chatwin
There were no voices here. There was this, what I saw; and though beyond it were mountains and glaciers and albatrosses and Indians; there was nothing to speak of, nothing to delay me further. Only the Patagonian paradox: tiny blossoms in vast space; to be here, it helped to be a miniaturist, or else interested in enormous empty spaces. There was no intermediate zone to study. Either the enormity of the desert or the sight of a tiny flower. In Patagonia you had to choose between the tiny and the vast.
Paul Theroux
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