Contemporary artists for a long time will owe a great deal to these three land-arts innovators. Wintrell was the group’s spiritual center, whom many called the Ancient of Days. Crebst, a simple physics teacher who read too much Kierkegaard, became the idealist shaman of cement and purity. Moncrief, a gregarious traveler, much like Odysseus, only smaller in build and hardly athletic, was truly a poet at heart, and a reluctant leader, as are many Capricorns. Yet all three pursued the land, knowing that the land, even as it lent them for a time its monumental voice, would ultimately have the last word.