I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.

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.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

You don't have to explain something you haven't said.

Job was comfortless before the speech of Jehovah and is comforted after it. He has been told nothing, but he feels the terrible and tingling atmosphere of something which is too good to be told.

There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts: the fear of punishment and the hope of reward.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

Perhaps despair is the only human sin.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.

Don't let your fear grow bigger than your faith.

Anything that is not growing is dead.

What terrifies me is that I might somehow endorse that view so people think they don't have to read books anymore.