What Looking at Landscapes Can Do to You

These paintings remind us of what we could lose and have lost lots of.by Rebecca BrownThe world is giant, too big to get. But when you look at a landscape painting, it pares it down, making it a window you can look throughto see only enough and remember or think about somewhere else, another way to be.When you look at a landscape painting, you think you could understand part of the world for a little time. We need those "spots" of time, as Wordsworth called them, moments that happen inside or to