I wandered far and saw many things over a long time. Most of the things which I saw I did not understand. I looked about me and did not see that any others understood the complex pattern either. But as I wandered I could not escape the feel of things and of places and of the people in them.

In: Samuel P. Ellison, Jr., Joseph J. Jones and Mirva Owen (eds.), The Flavor of Ed Owen — A Geologist Looks Back, Introduction (p. 1)