"If we consciously make that effort, attention need not always demand novelty. The novelty may be in the looking, not in the object. Wendell Berry writes of the purified attention that finds newness even in the entirely familiar, whereby the very intimacy with our surroundings, held with imagination and love (the tending the heeding, the listening of the definition?), reveals the underlying unpredictability and possibility. He says ‘To know imaginatively is to know intimately, particularly, precisely, gratefully, reverently, and with affection.’ And he speaks of such a loved and attentively known place: it is always, and not predictably, changing. It is never the same two days running, and the better one pays attention the more aware one becomes of these differences. Living and working in the place day by day, one is continuously revising one’s knowledge of it, continuously being surprised by and in or about it. And even if the place stayed the same, one would be getting older and growing in memory and experience, and would need for that reason alone to work from revision to revision."
— Gay Watson, Attention