Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price

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.

If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job.

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.

Before pointing fingers make sure your hands are clean.

With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.

I love writing, directing and photography; if I could figure out a way to put the three things together, that's what I would love to do.

The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all.

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.