I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings.
I spend a lot of time wandering around the countryside just looking at people, seeing how everything fits together.
I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I'll be photographing other old people.
I'm fascinated by beautiful scenery and what we have here on this Earth.
My appearance gave me access to a particular kind of world and I'm really grateful for it.
I have gone to the forest.
The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.