People wonder why I don't express more interest in traveling around the world. The fact is, I really haven't completed explorations of my backyard! Two-dimensionally, I am jealous as Hell over your flying by the Himalayas! JEZUZ!!! But - after all - the other day I walked by some fresh green moss in my garden; this is a terrible confession for an old grizzled mountaineer to say - but that moss looked mighty impressive to me!
From a letter to Dorothea Lange, February 22, 1959
