Robert Redford died on Tuesday at 89.

The movies that he acted in and directed have left their marks on me – with their themes of the environment and nature, friendship, loyalty, and loss – to those times and places I saw them and what those represented to me.

Like Jeremiah Johnson, he’s out there still – in the high Rocky Mountains.

“The way that you wander is the way that you choose, the day that you tarry is the day that you lose. Sunshine or thunder a man will always wonder where the fair wind blows, where the fair wind blows…”