Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production - oriented society and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.

...the questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits.

I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.

I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth and sky, matter and spirit. Vast open spaces speak best to this craving, the spaces I myself first found in the desert and then in the western grasslands.

I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.

Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.