Today, I offer you two of my favorite Ansel Adams quotes. Ansel Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist best known for traveling the American West to document the wilderness landscape. His photographs are iconic and often breathtaking.
He 
said:
“There is a deeper thing to express — the return of humanity to some sort of balanced awareness of the natural things — some rocks and sky. We need a little earth to stand on and feel run through our fingers. Perhaps Photography can do this. I am going to try anyhow.”
And,
“I hesitate to define just what the qualities of a true wilderness experience are. Like music and art, wilderness can be defined only on its own terms. The less talk, the better.”
Thanks, Susan. He is such a classic. And… we all need to get out into nature and wilderness ourselves, as well as look at photos; we need to make music ourselves (sing, hum, play instrument, whatever); as well as listen to it; we need to make art ourselves as well as look at it. Certainly Adams’ photos make me want to get out there! 🙂
Hi Anne,
I love your suggestions of getting out there and experiencing nature and wilderness ourselves. Nearly every day, in good weather, I take a walk with my dogs by the river near my home. Forest surrounds me. I think it must be what helps me stay sane. That and writing.
Thanks for commenting!
Susan
And from a lovely email subscriber:
“I’ve been listening to CDs of Matthew Fox and he is saying that the only way we are going to survive is if we make cosmology the center of our reality–Mother Earth and Father Sky, understanding that we are all made up of matter that came from the big bang, all connected in every way. Sometimes I try to look around at nature and man-made stuff and say “the energy of God in form. Awesome.” AB
Err, everything, by definition, *has* to be made from matter than came from the big bang.