Over the years I’d found this way of approaching whatever was new to me consistently useful: establish mutual trust, become vulnerable to the place, then hope for some reciprocity and perhaps even intimacy.
Thanks to Robert MacFarlane for the tipoff to this piece, excerpted from Orion, by the master of nature writing Barry Lopez. Since I bought 'Arctic Dreams' in 1986, I have sought out all his writing and read it numerous times... 'Horizon', his latest book is out now in paperback...
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