Credibility Is A Basic Survival Tool.

Perhaps The Central Question About [eliot] Porter's Work Is About The Relationship Between Science, Aesthetics, And Environmental Politics. His Brother, The Painter And Critic Fairfield Porter, Wrote In A 1960 Review Of [porter's] Colour Photographs: 'there Is No Subject And Background, Every Corner Is Alive,' And This Suggests What An Ecological Aesthetic Might Look Like.

...[cabeza De Vaca] Ceased To Be Lost Not By Returning But By Turning Into Something Else.

Given A Choice Between Their Worldview And The Facts, It's Always Interesting How Many People Toss The Facts.

No Matter How Deeply You Come To Know A Place, You Can Keep Coming Back To Know It More.

The Bigness Of The World Is Redemption. Despair Compresses You Into A Small Space, And A Depression Is Literally A Hollow In The Ground. To Dig Deeper Into The Self, To Go Underground, Is Sometimes Necessary, But So Is The Other Route Of Getting Out Of Yourself, Into The Larger World, Into The Openness In Which You Need Not Clutch Your Story And Your Troubles So Tightly To Your Chest.