I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth and sky, matter and spirit. Vast open spaces speak best to this craving, the spaces I myself first found in the desert and then in the western grasslands. Rebecca Solnit
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It takes a certain kind of person to fall in love with a vast open space. You have to love the beauty in nature and you have to be able to endure the loneliness. The worst is that your mind will wander when you are in a vast open space, but when you’re in a city, your mind never wanders. In a city the walls make you feel trapped, but when you are in a vast open space you feel free. In a city there are people all around you, but in a vast open space there is only you and nature.

Source: A Field Guide To Getting Lost

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  1. I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.
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