It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.

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.

The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.

On every travel, we saw beautiful landscapes.

Success is not for everyone, but if everyone had a phobia of failure, success was going to be a common thing.

The most satisfying of languages, Latin.

When the sounds of the world around you vanish, what is left but screaming silence.

You can deal with an emotion based on reason, but who can control an unreasonable emotion?

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

The only time the press doesn’t sensationalize information is when one of their own is kidnapped. Interesting how they show restraint then.

To revive a man is no slight thing.

A mind in the present moment is meditation.