On The Deeper Meaning of Seeing (Rediscover)

Escalante Canyon Autumn Abstract
“Of Nature itself upon the soul; the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors; the prevailing sense is that of an exposition in poetry; a high discourse, the voice of the speaker seems to breathe as much from the landscape as from his own breast; it is Nature communing with the seer.” 
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wish I could have met Emerson. An exceptionally enlightened soul, he, like no one else who has ever written about the relationship between beauty, nature, and the human spirit; the essence of his writings, as eloquent as they are profound, seem to inevitably find their way to that place where my artistic and spiritual sentiments dwell. To the viewer of nature, he elevates the encounter from simple detached observation; he opens our minds and hearts to the far greater possibilities of spiritual and revelatory experience. Like most photographers, I suppose, I began my journey in the art of landscape photography thirty...