Just a short drive from Sedona, Arizona, the ruins of ancient dwellings and rock art, as old as 6,000 years, adorn the red rock cliffs — It’s the quiet that catches my attention. The six miles we bumped along down a rutted dirt road to Palatki National Monument have carried us into a distant and ancient world filled with the gentle whisper of wind through the pinyon pines, the screech of blue jays and the utter…