There are people who have no engaged conversation with the land whatsoever, no sense of its beauty or extremes or limits and therefore no reason to q….

A map, it is said, organizes wonder..

Before Alaska came along and ruined everything, one of every twenty-five square miles in America was Montanan. This much space has nurtured a healthy….

The complex human eye harvests light. It perceives seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash: one-tenth of a second from retina to brain. ….

I hope to make pictures like I walk in the desert—under a spell, an instinct of motion, a kind of knowing that is essentially indirect and sideways.O….

...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light..