When you are out in the land, OK, you have the land but you are alone with it. And sometimes it is too much.
Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.
Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.
Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others.
Through most of my career I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.
Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world.