Open the door and go outside. And outside, something strikes you, delighting, refreshing, electrifying : the bright freshness of nature, its incessant material newness. When someone asked him what attracts him to the desert, Lawrence of Arabia answered : ''It is clean''. When someone asks us what attracts us to nature, we answer : ''It is fresh''. It has this amazing quality of renewing itself ceaselessly. We love the sun, granite and larches, forests and rivers, this or that landscape, but what enchants us above all, what enchants us most in nature, it is not a particular object, not a place, not a part, neither this nor that, -it is their physical intensity, the incessant brightness of their material newness, their freshness.
(About photographic images : cf About pictures : ''Moi, les photos, je les vois pas'' )
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