: Use stylization and imagination to reach a truth that is mysterious and elusive.
: He famously advocates for traveling on foot as a virtue and taking "guerrilla" actions to capture a vision.
: Creating requires a certain ruthlessness—forging permits, picking locks, or carrying bolt cutters to "thwart institutional cowardice". Style Guidelines for Writing
To write like Herzog, you must abandon "accountant's truth" (mere facts) in favor of a deeper, fabricated illumination.
: Nature is not a "Disneyfied" paradise; it is a landscape of "overwhelming and collective murder".