Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities—geography, autobiography, and metaphor.

Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is frequently trivial, and metaphor

can be dubious. But taken together, as in the best work of people like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward

Weston, the three kinds of information strengthen each other and reinforce what we all work to

keep intact—an affection for life.

—Robert Adams, Beauty in Photography