Status Updates From A Field Guide to Getting Lost

"Nonfiction seems to me photographic; it poses the same challange of finding form and pattern in the stuff already out there and the same ethical obligations to the subject. Fiction like painting lets you start with a blank canvas..." p.144

'I think now that the suburbs were a kind of tranquilizer for the generation before us, if topography can be a drug.' p.107

'For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountains ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not.' p.29

'Children, Landon said, are good at getting lost, because "the key in survival is knowing you're lost": they don't stray far, they curl up in some sheltered place at night, they know they need help.' p.11