D. H. LAWRENCE IN TAORMINA AND TAOS 169Peter Matthiessen decades later: “That the snow leopard is, that it is there, that
its frosty eyes watch us from the mountain—that is enough.”
Today there are four billion more humans than when Lawrence wrote his
poem, and countless fewer pumas. We ’re living in that world beyond. Once
“there was room for me and a mountain lion.” There may not be much longer.