It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

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.

See the light in others, and treat them as if that is all you see.

Sublime moments refracted, Even if only for seconds, Caught forever in your soul.

He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. But he who is in battle slain Can never rise to fight again.

I don't want ever to be champion again.

An aware person is in tune with all the powers of God and makes them his or her own.

Here, in the bare dark face of night A calm unhurried eye draws sight We see in what we think we fear The cloudings of our thought made clear

My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father.

What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?

Poetry, like love, is something we never truly say goodbye to.

Ultimately, a more experienced director realizes that you've got to stop sometime and just move on. They're braver about that.