I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

When Hate takes center stage you know you're watching the wrong show

I used to keep my college roommate from reading my personal mail by hiding it in her textbooks.

My first language is Gaelic.

Humankind above all is lazy.

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.

The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; "they will both fall into the ditch.

There is another possibility: not the end of nature, but the rebirth of wonder and even joy.

To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.

As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.