Often our actions and impacts have unforeseen, widespread reverberations into the world that can settle, implacably like stones. The notion of the way we are “being’ in the landscape, or traverse the land is a reflection on the distinction between indigenous and western approaches to the idea of ‘land’ and its inherent value. The desert for most First Nations people of the world is regarded as a living entity and it is sacrilegious to damage or disrespect it. Landscape is a construct of culture but the endurance of human practices which respect, acknowledge & even create shrines to the spiritual in the land is evidence of the intrinsic value we inherently feel. The endurance of human practices, like mark making, cairn building, stone collecting across time, peoples and cultures is evidence of our need to access the spiritual or transcendent in the natural world. Desert places are associated with potent myths and stories, birthplaces of religions, home of the sacred. Casting a stone is a leap of faith into the unknown.