The desert is the environment of revelation, genetically and physiologically alien, sensorily austere, esthetically abstract, historically inimical ...     To the desert go prophets and hermits; through deserts go pilgrims and exiles.     Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality.     - Paul Shepard "Man in the landcape"     photos were taken by Canon EOS 1D MarkIII on highway I-15, Nevada, USA, April 10th-11th 2008. © Yinan Max Wang