Day 098d: To walk Up upon Oneself … (July 21, 2019)
“As I have experienced it, landscape projects onto us not like a mere jetty or peninsula, but instead as a bold ray of sunlight, sometimes flickeringly unmappable, and yet always both quickening and illuminating. Many of us are adept, if not also occasionally embarrassed, at saying what we make of particular places, and yet few of us are any good at noticing what places make of us. For some time now it has seemed to me that the two questions we should ask of any strong landscape are these: firstly, what do I sense in this place that I have all too easily overlook elsewhere? And then, intentionally without any vanity or selfish motive, what can I offer this particular place that I have forgotten to offer before?” ~ inspired by Robert Macfarlane
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