Exploration 6 | Journey in Place | Scenery

What attracts you to a place?

Tiny Essay

When humans were less mobile, place was often chosen for us by birth in it. That gives us a “nativity,” as Wendell Berry calls it, with the land.

But what if that doesn’t happen? If a person is not born in a place, where does a sense of place begin?

I think it begins in the eye.

The Sublime

We’re struck by vistas, especially the spectacular ones—a…