Take Your Bearings   32

To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it.

—Berenice Abbott

As a child, I fell in love with everything wild and natural. Animals, landscapes, trees, flowers, seashores, deserts, mountains—the more removed from the artifice of humanity, the better. I spent much of my time in the fields around my home, observing lizards and insects, learning to identify flowers and birds and the cycles of nature. I read anything I could get my hands on, about natural places and things and adventures. I watched with awed fascination the rare documentary film offered on occasion on the single channel of public television available to me at the time. With the naïve imagination ...

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