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How can we hope, after all, to see a tree or rock or clear north sky if we do not adopt a little of its mode of life, a little of its time.”109 This reflection likely reveals something of Adams’s working process: it sounds slow and contemplative (recall Thoreau in Walden: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...and see if I could not learn what it had to teach…”).110 Perhaps Adams alluded to the frustrations of some of his own audience when he continued, still speaking about survey photography: 108 Adams, “Introduction,” The American Space, 1-2. 109 Ibid 2 110 Adams first practiced silence and stillness in nature as a child with his father: “Down in the big swamp, down the hill from our house in New Jersey, one of the first lessons I had was if you sit still long enough, you will begin to see remarkable things.