Three Fingers Tonic
~ Wilderness Journey of the Heart ~

Three Fingers Sunrise beyond Gerkman Creek © Ken James McLeod

There was always something in the way the raw earth moved me when I ventured out upon it...captivated by its hold and absorbed in its fold, liken to being in love with a beauitful woman. And in my brain, I pondered who is this all for if not for the hearts of those who seek the wild wanderlust . . .

Enter: Boulder River Wilderness with eyes and ears open . . . I am reminded of what I once read in a book passage.....

The more the painter invents, the farther he takes us from the world which actually exists and to that extent he may encourage us in an alienation from the real. The master photographer, on the other hand, discovers rather than invents, and in the way he may (as Eliot Porter so strikingly does) second Thoreau in Thoreau's most insistent injunction, namely, "Be not among those who have eyes that see not and ears that hear not."

Joeseph Wood Krutch (June 14, 1962) excerpt from Book Introduction . . . In Wilderness Is the Preservation of the World . . . from Henry David Thoreau writings, photos by Eliot Porter.

KJM

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