The romance of the old West vanished so fast and so few ever did anything with it. Does it make you realize the importance of Art and how the main knowledge of history is through Art alone?

A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.

The greatest tool at our command is the very thing that is photography. Light. Light is our paintbrush and it is a most willing tool in the hands of the one who studies it with a sufficient care.

Much earnest philosphical thought is born of the life which springs from close association with nature.

Light is one of the most important factors in photography.

The photographer can arrange his picture just as the painter does, only sometimes he must go about it in a different way.

I live a lonely photographic life here in Santa Fe. I do see Eliot Porter occasionally, and Ansel storms through every so often, otherwise I plug along in my old fashioned way.

It's too bad patient-centered care is not rocket science, because if it was, we would be really good at it.

A patient dog will have no bone to eat because other dogs have eaten

Enlightenment isn't the end but the beginning, the start of a journey that a small group of people begun while the rest sleeps.

Until the reality of equality between man and woman is fully established and attained, the highest social development of mankind is not possible.

But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.

I haven't even had a life I could call my own, and you're ready to slot me into the grand design. Well, I don't think I want to go. I want to be my own design.

The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.

I'm not intellectual at all as a designer. Whatever I'm into at the moment is usually what becomes the collection.

The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

Reforesting the earth is possible, given a human touch.

In my opinion, character is the most important determinant of a person's success, achievement and ability to handle adversity.