A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

You will get your father's wealth one day but not his legacy.

Schopenhauer had been Hitler's philosophical god in the early days. In power it was Nietzsche.

No fantasies, I don't think. Most of my fantasies have already been realized.

My wife and I went back to the hotel where we spent our wedding night. Only this time, I stayed in the bathroom and cried.

Give away everything you know, one bite at a time.

Tourism is the biggest industry in the world.

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

A great brand is a story that never stops unfolding.

Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.

Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life.