EXPLORING the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains.

Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned.

Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them.

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?

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.

I see disaster everywhere; I also […] see generosity and resistance everywhere.

To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin’s terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery.