The Only Burden You Have Ever Had

We Have Names For Everything. What If We Forgot About Those Names? And We Stopped Seeing Things As Something? What If We Just Observed Things, Watched Things, Without Giving Them A Name, Without Coming To A Conclusion? What Do You Think Would Happen? You Would Transcend Everything.

I Would Welcome The Passing Of The Idea Of Philosophy As Defined By A Method Of Conceptual Analysis. But That Is Not The Passing Of Philosophy, And It Leaves The Philosopher With The Task Of Grasping Natures Or Essences (among Other Things).

The Photographer Hopes, In Brief, To Discover A Tension So Exact That It Is Peace.

Landscape Pictures Can Offer Us, I Think, Three Verities: Geography, Autobiography, And Metaphor. Geography Is, If Taken Alone, Sometimes Boring, Autobiography Is Frequently Trivial, And Metaphor Can Be Dubious. But Taken Together, As In The Best Work Of People Like Alfred Stieglitz And Edward Weston, The Three Kinds Of Information Strengthen Each Other And Reinforce What We All Work To Keep Intact - The Affection For Life.

All Land, No Matter What Has Happened To It, Has Over It A Grace, An Absolutely Persistent Beauty.