By their nature, photographs have little or no property value because they have no rarity value. The very principle of photography is that the resulting image is not unique, but on the contrary infinitely reproducible.
“To aim for the highest point is not the only way to climb a mountain.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“Walking thus, hour after hour, the senses keyed, one walks the flesh transparent. But no metaphor, transparent, or light as air, is adequate. The body is not made negligible, but paramount. Flesh is not annihilated but fulfilled. One is not bodiless, but essential body.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“Walking in mist tests not only individual self-discipline, but the best sort of interplay between persons.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“The hardest thing of all to see is what is really there.”
― The Peregrine
― The Peregrine
“The first law of ecology is that everything is connected to everything else.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
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