I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.

How do we accurately evoke land we love? What should we even call the world we walk and drive through-scenery, landscape?

I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.

Home is where we know - and are known - through accumulated experience.

Individualism and mobility are at the core of American identity

In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.

We are so habitually nostalgic by now that we anticipate looking back in the midst of enjoyment, look forward to watching the videos we're taking of our children even as we make them.