Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

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.

Often during writing, I am compelled by OCD to delete and rewrite a word or sentence over and over again.

Love and kindness are most precious where there is endless suffering.

If we don't currently have what we so desire, then we must become a different person. Beliefs and thought patterns is the road to victory.

This isn’t a church social, Sweetheart. You aren’t going to be able to save me this time.

I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.

I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.

Whales are drinking all our water and eating our sailors.

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.

The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life.