..for the obvious reason that nature – unadulterated and unimproved by man – is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is crude and lacking in arrangement...

"Random Notes on Photography" 1922 ["EW:100 – Centennial Essays in Honor of Edward Weston", "Quintessences: Edward Weston’s Search for Meaning" p. 51, Untitled 41, The Friends of Photography, Carmel, California 1986]